| Tuberculosis diagnosed / managed at NGMC, Teaching Hospital, Kohalpur: a joint private-public effort. | |
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PMID: 18604111 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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INTRODUCTION: Medical colleges both in public and private sector in Nepal have been supporting national TB control program (NTP) in its effort to control TB and its eventual elimination. Official collaboration between Nepalganj Medical College (NGMC), a private sector medical college and NTP was developed in 2000; a joint private-public initiative to contain TB. OBJECTIVES: This study has been done with the objectives a) to review the TB cases diagnosed/managed at NGMC Teaching Hospital (TH), Kohalpur, in Financial Year 2063/2064 (Shrawan 63 Asad 64) and b) to assess the contribution of NGMC, TH, Kohalpur towards TB control. METHODOLOGY: This is record based review of TB cases diagnosed, categorized, treated at NGMC TH, Kohalpur and referred to respective health facilities in Financial Year 2063/2064 (Shrawan 63 Asad 64). And case detection with respect to detected TB cases in Midwestern Region and entire country. RESULTS: Around 13% of detected TB cases for Mid Western Region and 1.5 % of detected TB cases at national level were diagnosed at NGMC, TH, Kohalpur. 35% of cases were of pediatric TB; lymph node TB, pleural effusion & abdominal TB were common form of extra pulmonary (EP) TB seen in children. 20.8%, 44.8% and 34.4% of cases in adults were of sputum smear (SS) + pulmonary TB (PTB), SS- PTB & EPTB respectively; pleural effusion, lymph node TB, Miliary & abdominal TB were common form of EPTB seen in adults. CONCLUSION: Contribution of NGMC, TH, Kohalpur towards case detection seems to be significant. The role of medical colleges in TB control can not be underestimated. |
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R M Piryani; S C Kohli; G Shrestha; T Rawat |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ) Volume: 6 ISSN: 1812-2078 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2008 Jan-Mar |
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Created Date: 2008-07-08 Completed Date: 2008-12-11 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101215359 Medline TA: Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) Country: Nepal |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 28-32 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Medicine, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal. r_piryani@yahoo.com |
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Adolescent Adult Child Child, Preschool Female Hospitals, Teaching / organization & administration* Humans Incidence Infant Interinstitutional Relations* Male Middle Aged Nepal Private Sector / organization & administration* Public Sector / organization & administration* Retrospective Studies Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant / epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*, drug therapy*, epidemiology Young Adult |
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