Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research & Capacity Building in Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India; National Task Force (NTEP/RNTCP).
Indian J Tuberc. 2021 Jan;68(1):128-133. doi: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2020.08.019. Epub 2020 Aug 28.
COVID-19 pandemic has disturbed the delivery of health care in almost all countries of the world. This has affected mostly the public health control programs. Because of lock downs, restrictions in movement, psychological fear of contacting the disease in health care facilities, diversion of health care workers for containment and management of COVID-19, utilization of diagnostic facilities like CBNAAT machines for COVID work, conversion of hospitals for care of these patients, financial diversion etc has created issues in the NTEP to focuss on TB control in India. Case notification and other areas of the program to achieve End TB by 2025 have suffered. Various ways of overcoming these difficulties have been discussed.
COVID-19 大流行几乎扰乱了世界上所有国家的医疗保健服务提供。这主要影响了公共卫生控制计划。由于封锁、行动限制、在医疗保健机构接触疾病的心理恐惧、医护人员转移以遏制和管理 COVID-19、用于 COVID 工作的 CBNAAT 等诊断设施的利用、医院转为这些患者的护理、资金转移等,印度国家结核病控制项目(NTEP)在专注于结核病控制方面遇到了问题。病例报告和该项目的其他领域,以实现到 2025 年终止结核病的目标,都受到了影响。已经讨论了克服这些困难的各种方法。