Visitors’ Opine 
TB News from India, Jan-Feb 2003

We are indeed thankful to you for sending us TB News from India, a bi-monthly e-zine. We have gone through it with great interest. We took out a print and circulated it amongst our Medical Personnel and Para-Medical staff. All the monastic members too evinced in reading your newsletter and appreciated the contents.

The one item that attracted everyone's attention obviously was the news
about our website: www.rkmtbs.org. You have realistically explained albeit in brief, the salient features of the website. We are sure that your preview of our site must have induced many people to visit the website for which we once again offer our hearty thanks to you.

Please do send us this e-zine regularly.

Swami Vimokshananda
Secretary

Ramakrishna Mission TB Sanatorium
P.O.: Ramakrishna Sanatorium
District Ranchi 835221, Jharkhand

Misuse of RNTCP funds…

This issue of the newsletter is very important and interesting. I have found the topic on the misuse of the RNTCP funds by Govt. official extremely important. It is high time that people understand the purpose of decentralization as envisaged by the World Bank and as agreed upon by the Govt., in implementation of the RNTCP. If it really works as laid down then I am sure that we on the World TB day need not say as you have rightly said in the present circumstances that, "The best way to celebrate the spirit of WTBD is to rapidly extend DOTS to un-served territories without delay". 

Unfortunately, we the researchers get stuck at the bottleneck in the form
BUREAUCRACY at almost all levels of RNTCP implementation. Let us hope that the situation improves as we move ahead to join hands globally to combat Tuberculosis. I sincerely feel that it is the press that can do a lot so as to help DOTS to reach the needy. It is good that your newsletter has brought this issue for the TB fora to discuss.

Looking forward to more such articles.

Warm regards,

Sanjay Juvekar
Pune
shachi66@sancharnet.in 

Interesting information:

Thank you for sharing the information. I found it very interesting.

Carmen M. Priddy, RN, BSN
Program Manager
Tuberculosis Control Program
carmenpriddy@wvdhhr.org