SHILLONG: East Khasi Hills deputy commissioner and chairman of District Health Society, PS Dkhar launched the daily DOT (Direct Observed Treatment) for tuberculosis patients here on Thursday.
The daily DOT has replaced alternate DOT for tuberculosis (TB) patients.
In a statement issued here, the district tuberculosis officer said patients suffering from the disease for the first time need to take medicines for six months to be completely cured from the disease.Patients have to take medicine up to eight months if they have taken anti tuberculosis medicine at any time before for at least more than a month.
Incomplete treatment of this disease will create a chance for the organism causing this disease to become stronger and costlier.
Daily DOT was started for patients suffering from tuberculosis during the last week of October this year and patients who are already under alternate DOT will continue to take the alternate DOT regularly till the course is completed.
