TB Notification from Private Health Sector in Delhi, India: Challenges Encountered by Programme Personnel and Private Health Care Providers

Table 1

Notification profile of “NIKSHAY” registered PHCP in NDMC and GTB RNTCP districts of Delhi state, 2014.

Stratification of private health care providers	NDMC RNTCP district			GTB RNTCP district
	Number registered in NIKSHAY	Number notifying patients with TB	Number of patients with TB notified	Number registered in NIKSHAY	Number notifying patients with TB	Number of patients with TB notified
Laboratories	2	2	178	16	0	0
Private practitioners clinic/single private practitioners	27	0	0	21	1	90
Hospitals/clinics/nursing home	3	0	0	5	3	0
Total	32	2	178	42	4	90

RNTCP: revised national tuberculosis control programme; NIKSHAY: web-based portal for notification and follow-up of patients with TB; NDMC: New Delhi Municipal Corporation; GTB: Guru Teg Bahadur Chest clinic.