Coverage: Three districts i.e. Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore

April 2007 – March 2008

Activities:

• Enhancing the capacity of the district offices and the hospitals to effectively plan, implement and monitor DOTS activities
• Training of managers, doctors, laboratory personnel, DOTS Facilitators and lady health workers
• Enabling/supporting three key agents (school teachers, community health workers and local religious leaders) to mobilize communities in proposed districts
• Screening of TB suspects, initiation of TB cases registration and examination
• Organizing community groups and conducting discussions

Outputs:

• 128 managers oriented on DOTS and plans prepared for implementing DOTS activities in hospitals
• 16 advocacy workshops for the hospitals conducted
• 70 doctors received core training on case management module and 32 doctors trained on refresher course
• 70 paramedics received core training as DOTS facilitator, 38 paramedics received training on quarterly reporting and 32 paramedics received training on refresher course
• 38 laboratory technicians received core training on AFB microscopy, 16 laboratory technicians received refresher training on AFB microscopy and 3 district laboratory supervisons received training on EQA
• 4 social organizers received training on social mobilisation and 1500 lady health workers training on providing treatment support
• 4945 smear +ive cases detected, 192 community mobilization events conducted and 3791 TS reported