Pharmacist/ Storekeeper (SDS)

Video: Features of 99 DOTS

Treatment Support Groups play an important role in providing treatment support to TB patients. It has been envisioned as a non-statutory body of socially responsible citizens and volunteers to provide social support to TB patients. This group goes beyond just providing treatment-related support as it also helps the community in accessing information, free and quality services and linkage to social welfare programmes without compromising confidentiality and respecting the dignity of the patient.

At treatment initiation a suitable Treatment Supporter has to be identified and assigned to the Patient.

How to identify a Treatment supporter for a patient 

Relationship between Cancer and Tuberculosis (TB)

TB and malignancy may be related in the following four ways:

Silicosis is a progressive and disabling interstitial lung disease caused by inhalation and deposition in the lungs of particles of free silica.

Mutual Risk of TB and Silicosis