The purpose of the paper is to spotlight some of the problems of NTPs in developing countries and what to expect in the future. The paper presents a review of NTPs' problems with respect to whether they have achieved community-wide coverage, rural people's socio-cultural expectations concerning the health centers, integration of NTPs with GHS and certain management aspects. The conclusion is that a majority of these problems are managerial and attitudinal in nature. For instance, the wide variability in the quality of TB services provided at the periphery because of insufficient knowledge or awareness of some GPs, the lack of equitable sharing between hospitals (urban or rural), with health centers (urban or rural), the reluctance of well-qualified staff to accept rural postings, irregular supply of medicines and lack of staff supervision by senior officers have prevented NTPs from community-wide coverage. While all ingredients for physical integration with GHS are present, functional and attitudinal fusion, of the generalists with the specialists and of rural health centres with higher level institutions up to teaching medical colleges are still lacking. Managerial problems manifest in administration, operation and training are described and the need for political will or leadership is explained. Suggestions to overcome these problems include undertaking a number of operational studies to understand what has happened with regard to NTPs and why, improving training and/or supervision and making the GHS more quality-conscious and management-oriented.