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No drug-resistant TB case in India: Expert team
Friday January 20, 2012 02:43:43 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
There are no cases of total drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB)
reported in the country and the cases reported by a Mumbai
hospital fall in the category of extensively drug-resistant TB,
according to a report submitted to the health ministry Friday.
A central team comprising senior chief medical officer, Central TB
Division (CTD), consultant (Drug Resistant TB), and national
programme officer (laboratory) was sent to Mumbai Tuesday
following reports of P.D. Hinduja hospital detecting first cases
of total drug resistant TB in India.
The team submitted its report to the health ministry Friday.
According to the report, out of the 12 reported patients, nine
were traced and found to be stable on the current treatment while
three have since died.
"A careful audit of their prescriptions revealed that these three
patients had received erratic, unsupervised second-line drugs,
added individually and often in incorrect doses from multiple
private practitioners in an attempt to cure their multi-drug
resistant tuberculosis," the report highlights.
Following the cases, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
and the Maharashtra government have decided to strengthen the TB
service delivery systems in the city.
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