Aims & Objectives
- To promote Revised National Control Programme in India and to assist formulate strategies which are socially acceptable and economically feasible in order to assist and strengthen the programme.
- To supervise & strengthen Revised National Tuberculosis Programme in the State of Delhi as State TB Training and Demonstration Centre.
- To provide facilities for training, teaching and research activities to fulfill these objectives.
- To provide outpatient facility for diagnosis, control, treatment of tuberculosis and to augment IEC activities in order to strengthen preventive aspect by educating the masses.
Functions
- Undertake, aid, promote, guide and co-ordinate research activities in the various aspects of Tuberculosis and allied diseases including basic, epidemiological, clinical and operational research.
- Organize training activities for various health workers/personnel involved in the control and management of tuberculosis.
- Exchange information with other institutions, associations and societies interested in the same objects.
- Prepare, print and publish papers or periodicals in furtherance of the objects of the Institute and to contribute to any such periodicals.
- Monitoring & supervision of the performance of the Revised National TB Control Programme in the state of Delhi.
- Supervise external quality assurance of sputum microscopy services of laboratory activities in the State of Delhi.
- To supervise and augment IEC activities in the State of Delhi.
- Provide culture and DST facilities and also newer diagnostic tools to diagnose MDR TB for the cases belong to Delhi state