State government conforming to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (H&FW)’s ambitious goal of eliminating TB by 2025 has stated that non notification of TB cases by clinical establishments, pharmacies, chemists and druggists was a criminal offence.
Informing this, State TB officer, Revised National TB Control Programme, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare (H&FW), stated that it was essential to collect complete information of all TB patients in order to ensure proper diagnosis of Tuberculosis and its management in patients and their contacts. The officer stated that there were also specific formats for reporting of those cases, which were being circulated to all concerned. It has been informed that cases were to be notified to the local public authority of the state i.e. the state TB officer and district TB officers.
State TB officer said that as per the publication “the clinical establishments, pharmacy, chemist and druggist, failing to notify a tuberculosis patient to the nodal officer, and local public authority health staff of general health system or urban local bodies, and not taking appropriate public health action on receiving tuberculosis patient notification may attract the provisions of sections 269 and 270 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) as the case maybe”.
Meanwhile, the Revised National TB Control Programme Nagaland has appealed to all the private health care establishments, private practitioners, pharmacies, druggists etc to extend their support to the initiatives that were being undertaken.
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