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b) Community Participation & Role of Voluntary Organizations
 
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AU : Trivedi SB
TI : Role of non-medical voluntary body in active case detection and case holding in tuberculosis control programme.
SO : Eastern Region Conference of IUAT, 15th, Lahore, Pakistan, 10-13 Dec, 1987, p. 403-405.
DT : CP
AB :

Community involvement in the TB control programme has always been considered to be a very important factor. The Rotary Club of Surendranagar District, Gujarat, was entrusted with the work of organising active case detection camps in the district. The case detection work was done by a mobile odelca unit and the laboratory team. The results were handed over to the Rotary Club. The Rotarian volunteers, with the help of the DTC, supervised the regularity of collection and consumption of treatment drugs. Fifteen(15) such camps were held for the chest symptomatics. A total of 5,648 mini X-rays were done and 5077 sputa were examined. A total of 1,395 radiologically active cases were detected. The involvement of volunteers significantly helped in: 1) Early and increased detection of cases, 2) Reducing the financial burden of the treatment by providing the needed drugs to all detected cases, 3) Increasing case holding by voluntarily contacting all the patients in the area, 4) Increasing the public’s awareness about the TB problem and helping in providing the necessary health education. This collaborative effort resulted in 78.3% of the cases completing the treatment. It was concluded that community involvement, as in this study, improved the performance of the TB control programme.

KEYWORDS: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION; CASE HOLDING; INDIA.
 
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