Global Journal of Medical Research, K: Interdisciplinary, Volume 22 Issue 4

© 2022. Dr. Sampa Mitra. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- nd/4.0/. Evaluation of ‘Referral for Treatment’ System under RNTCP in a Hospital at Kolkata, India By Dr. Sampa Mitra Abstract- To handle the problem of tuberculosis (TB), Government of India started the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) in 1993, whereby Directly Observed Treatment, Short- course (DOTS) was officially adopted as the strategy in 1997. The medical colleges, involved in the RNTCP programme, refer the patients to the DOTS centres near their homes, after assigning the treatment categories. This study attempts to evaluate this ‘referral for treatment’ system during the second phase of RNTCP (RNTCP-II). To achieve this objective, pertinent data regarding 758 patients referred from RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata, to various DOTS centres in West Bengal, between 01.10.2006 and 30.09.2007, were collected from the said medical college, the relevant DOTS centres, the patients themselves, using a suitable questionnaire, and also the family members and the neighbours of some patients. Chi-square test at 5% level of significance was used as an analysis tool. Keywords: referral, DOTS, RNTCP, RG Kar Medical College, chi-square test. GJMR-K Classification: DDC Code: 616.995 LCC Code: RC311 EvaluationofReferralforTreatmentSystemunderRNTCPinaHospitalatKolkataIndia Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Global Journal of Medical Research: K Interdisciplinary Volume 22 Issue 4 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4618 & Print ISSN: 0975-5888