{"id":37892,"date":"2017-03-15T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/03\/15\/rntcp-conducts-tog-trg-in-kohima\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:24:16","slug":"rntcp-conducts-tog-trg-in-kohima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/rntcp-conducts-tog-trg-in-kohima\/","title":{"rendered":"RNTCP conducts TOG trg in Kohima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Two-day training on Technical Operational Guidelines (TOG) was conducted by Revised National TB Control Programme from March 8 to 9 at directorate of Health &amp; Family Welfare, Kohima with WHO NE consultant, Dr Deka as the key resource person.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The trainees included all the district TB officers, medical officers and state TB cell staff.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In a press note, state TB officer RNTCP, Dr. K. T. Lotha stated that current document (TOG) outlines the guidelines on TB care in line with RNTCP national strategic plan for Tuberculosis Control 2012-17.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>As part of the preparatory work, training was conducted and more training would also be held for various categories of staff. &nbsp;As part of the \u201cEnd TB Strategy\u201d with the goal to end the global TB epidemic by the year 2035, this TOG has been conceived and is to be initiated all over the country, stated the release. &nbsp; It has informed that RNTCP would be undertaking various drastic strategies such as improving the quality of basic DOTS by introducing daily regime in place of intermittent in a phase wise manner, implementing active TB case finding efforts, engaging private providers more effectively, addressing TB co-morbidities which not only includes HIV &amp; AIDS but diabetes, tobacco usage, nutritional support etc. Expansion of diagnosis and treatment of DR TB (drug resistant TB), promoting research, TB Surveillance and monitoring, improved rapid diagnosis are some of the plans included<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-day training on Technical Operational Guidelines (TOG) was conducted by Revised National TB Control Programme from March 8 to 9 at directorate of Health &amp; Family Welfare, Kohima with WHO NE consultant, Dr Deka as the key resource person.&nbsp; The trainees included all the district TB officers, medical officers and state TB cell staff.&nbsp; In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}