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

Table 4

Suggestions for smooth implementation of TB notification among “NIKSHAY” registered PHCP at two RNTCP districts of Delhi state, 2015.

Respondents	Suggestions
RNTCP personnel
TBHV	Conduct prior meeting or workshop to give information on “NIKSHAY” and TB notification to TBHVs
	DTO should take steps and inform his staffs to collect data for 15 days or once in a month from private health care providers
	Conducting meeting with private health care providers on TB notification
STS/STLS	Government should provide a notice about TB notification to private practitioners and should be made a rule
	Indian Medical Association (IMA) at national and district level should inform all the doctors about this and should be sensitized on this
	Before making guideline at policy level ground reality should be understood
DTO	If notified once they should be known to others also in other district or state
	DTO should visit to meet private practitioners and vehicle can be hired for full time; many things can happen from DTOs part
	Duplication of TB numbers for same person at different places should be stopped
PHCP	DOT centers should be provided to private health care providers
	Follow-up process from RNTCP will be an effective solution to improve notification
	Notification process should be made convenient and easy
	Group for qualified and nonqualified PHCP should be build and educate them from RNTCP

RNTCP: revised national tuberculosis control programme; NIKSHAY: web-based portal for notification and follow-up of patients with TB; STS: senior treatment supervisor; STLS: senior TB laboratory supervisor; DTO: district tuberculosis officer; TBHV: TB health visitor; PHCP: private health care providers.