Self explainatory

Who all to supervise, what to supervise, how to supervise

Index TB patient: Initially identified person of any age with new or recurrent TB in a specific household or other comparable settings in which others may have been exposed. The Index TB patient is the person on whom a contact investigation is centred, but is not necessarily the source/ primary case.

Contact Tracing plays an important role in the detection of all those who are secondarily infected for proper diagnosis and prompt treatment. This process can be recorded and reported in Ni-kshay under the ‘contact tracing’ option. The process of recording contact tracing in Ni-kshay is given below.

Process Overview

Explain about recording and reporting contact tracing in Nikshay.

 Explain the process of contact tracing - Defining the contact ,generating the line list with and systematic screening of TB, Testing of eligible , Offering preventive therapy , Documentation,  desirable work place contact , periodic screening ( Not as one time activity )

Discuss the importance of contact tracing