
Shri Biplab Kumar Deb.
Health and Family welfare
0381-241-4000(O)
For better supervision and monitoring of programme there is Sub District Unit within the District Level. As per norm it is necessary to have one Sub District Unit with 2.5 lakhs population & in case of Inaccessible tribal area with 1.25 lakhs population. One Sub-district unit will have one Medical officer (TB Control), one Senior Treatment Supervisor and one senior Tuberculosis Lab. Supervisor.
Presently state has 18 (Seventeen) Sub-District TB Unit.
Total number of MOTC at present is - 18 (Eighteen) one for each TB Unit, all are State Govt. Staff & Trained.
Total nos. of Senior Treatment Supervisor - 19 (Nineteen), all are Contractual & Trained.
Total nos. of Senior Tuberculosis Laboratory Supervisor- 13 (Thirteen) all are Contractual & Trained.
Total nos of DMCs District wise(59 nos.)
LIST OF DMCs under RNTCP
Indicators | Achievement (2018-19) |
Achievement (2019-20) |
Target (2020-21) |
Achievement (2020-21) December |
Presumptive TB Screening done | 28087 |
34664 |
31200 |
12604 |
New Sputum Positive Detection | 1570 |
1539 |
2925 |
698 |
Total TB Case Notification | 2864 |
3030 |
3500 |
1467 |
Universal Drug Susceptibility Test (UDST) | 1461 |
2453 |
2450 |
1431 |
MDR TB | 27 |
31 |
27 |
66 |
Nodal DR-TB Centre
The Microbiology department of Agartala Govt Medical College has been identified by Govt of India as a Culture and DST Laboratory which will cater to diagnostic and follow-up needs of Drug Resistant TB patients of the state.
Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB (PMDT) Activities CB-NAAT Machines (Latest Molecular technology to detect TB / MDR-TB) installed (6nos.) under RNTCP at