A meeting of core committee of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was held at Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) on Wednesday. In the meeting it was decided to appoint Assistant Professor Pulmonary Medicine Dr Rameshwar Pandey as nodal officer.
The Principal of the college, Dr Pradip Bharati Gupta chaired the meeting. He said that it was decided that the microbiology department should be strengthened to start TB diagnosis. The DOT centre located in the hospital was also asked to use the medical college reporting format for submitting the reports to State Task Force. Dr Gupta said that development of master trainers in the medical college and provision of DOT to indoor patients were also discussed.
The meeting was attended by STF chairman, Dr Girish Sindhwani, assistant director Dr Pankaj Singh and members for various departments of medical college.
RNTCP is the state-run tuberculosis (TB) control initiative of the Government of India. As per the National Strategic Plan 2012–17, the program has a vision of achieving a "TB free India", and aims to achieve universal access to TB control services.