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Private health providers are an inevitable part of the TB treatment and support in the country. These private providers include:
To improve complete reporting and ensure support care for patients in the private sector, the facilities will receive an incentive of:
Special provisions have been made in the tribal, hilly and difficult to reach areas of the country under the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) to expand diagnosis and treatment centres, improve access for TB patients and coverage of TB services.
To provide access to diagnosis and treatment centres for people in the tribal areas, NTEP has initiated transport support for TB patients in notified tribal areas from the year 2019.
Transport support is available for patients receiving treatment from both the private and public sectors.
After the assigned Checker/ Approver Ni-kshay user clears benefits, Nikshay sends groups/ batches of benefits to PFMS as a "Payment Request" (DBTPayReq). PFMS processes these Payment Requests it receives from Ni-kshay before executing the request. Processing involves checking for any inconsistencies/ errors in the payment request at the batch level and at the benefit level. On processing:
Figure: Components of Ayushman Bharat Yojana
In the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) 68th round 2011-2012, India was reported to have the highest out-of-pocket expense on healthcare, of which over 67% was spent on drugs. Recognising the importance of essential drugs being available and accessible to the general public, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, implemented the Free Drugs Service Initiative (FDSI) under the National Health Mission (NHM) in 2015.
Objectives
Eliminating the catastrophic expenditure on TB patients and their families has been an important goal of the World Health Organisation's (WHO’s) END TB strategy.
Substance use has been one of the major reasons for non-adherence to TB treatment and therefore, the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP) has implemented several initiatives for control and de-addiction of substance use in association with various other health programmes like the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), Drug De-Addiction Programme (DDAP), etc.
NTEP has also included referral services to de-addiction facilities for TB patients as a part of the ‘Standards for TB Care in India (STCI)'.
Video: TB Notification Register
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) refers to the set of activities used to assess the progress of a programme towards specific objectives and address weaknesses in the programme design.
Monitoring
It is a systematic, ongoing collection, collation, analysis and interpretation of the data to detect deviations from the expected norms, followed by dissemination of feedback information for corrective actions.
Significance of Monitoring
The Adherence Summary dashboard is designed primarily for treatment supporters and field staff to help them monitor the day to day adherence statistics of their patients and incorporate necessary actions wherever required. This dashboard enables staff at district level hierarchies and below to view real-time adherence information of all patients on treatment.
The adherence summary dashboard is available in both Ni-kshay web portal as well as the mobile application.