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TB is the flagship of all SHIS programmes, projects and activities. TB Clinic which started in 1982 is the flag-ship venture of SHIS. Success in TB care & Control activities spread our name all over & helped us mobilize our resources and strength to expand and diversify our activities. We were inducted by Govt. of India into Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) and allotted with the districts of North & South 24 Parganas as our area of activities. Subsequently, SHIS claimed the distinction as the only NGO in India entrusted with the task of running 7 TUs in Minakhan TU (Block covered Minakhan Full, Haroa Partly), Ghoshpur TU (Sandeshkhali-I full), Sandeshkhali TU (Sandeshkhali-II full, Hasnabad Partly), Gosaba TU (Gosaba Basanti Block full), Madhabnagar TU (Patharpratima Block full), Nalmuri TU (Bhangar-I & II Block full).
SHIS successfully carried out Community Based Directly Observed Treatment (CBDOTs) with patient leaders i.e. TB Cured patients, acting as DOTs provider. We carryout repeated tests on TB – Negative patients to identify those TB negative persons who are carriers and pose a danger in future. We are carrying out intensive IEC/ Awareness drive amongst patients to rule out the possibility of laps in daily intake of medicine and to follow preventive measures
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to control the spread of TB. We are controlling the threat of Multi-Drug Therapy Resistance (MDTR) through awareness about what causes it and the threat it poses and strengthening the DOTs Programme to ensure sharp drop in lapse cases. |
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All these activities for the year 2010-2011, we have carried out under RNTCP project of Govt. of India through H & FW Dept. Govt. of West Bengal with a grant of Rs. 37,21,092. This is apart from grant received from Dominique Lapierre for project connected with TB.
Despite the success achieved during implementation of different phases of RNTCP with widest coverage of different districts, there remains several blocks in each district which are remote and inaccessible and are not covered by Govt. or any other institutional / appropriate private health services. As a result millions of people remain outside all types of TB care and treatment programme. To arrange for diagnostic facilities |
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for those areas in a cost effective way, we want to introduce mobile TB diagnostic clinics through ambulance borne laboratory clinics fully manned by required staff, microscope, test culture facilities, reagent etc. Each such mobile clinic (including driver & fuel) will cost us annually Rs.5,50,000 each for 18 Districts of West Bengal. This is subject to response from appropriate donors with necessary background in the field. |
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