National
TB programme inaccessible to patients Even
as the country observed the World TB Day on March
24, 2003, the 10th anniversary of Tuberculosis being
declared a global emergency by the World Health
Organization (WHO), the Directly Observed Treatment,
Shortcourse (DOTS) programme under Revised National
Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has become
inaccessible to a large section of the population,
according to experts.
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Even
as the country observed the World TB Day on March
24, 2003, the 10th anniversary of Tuberculosis being
declared a global emergency by the World Health
Organization (WHO), the Directly Observed Treatment,
Shortcourse (DOTS) programme under Revised National
Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) has become
inaccessible to a large section of the population,
according to experts.
