DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i05.034

Pages: 1617-1623

In Delhi, out of all new cases registered every year, about 14% cases occur in children.The RNTCP does not follow up patients for relapses, MDR-TB after treatment completion. The primary objective of this study was to assess the tuberculosis status of pediatric TB patients (<14 years) registered at DOTS center after two year of treatment completion. We conducted retrospective cohort study during January 2014 to October 2014. Out of 10 RNTCP zones of Delhi state, two zones namely south zone and south west zone were selected by convenient sampling method and all pediatric tuberculosis patients who were declared as cured or treatment completed at these two zones had been selected by complete enumeration method. We studied 462 study subjects regarding tuberculosis status after cure. Among 462 study subjects, majority were having extra-pulmonary tuberculosis 290 (62.7%) and only 172 (37.3%) were having pulmonary TB. We found that during the last 2 year, 22(4.8%) were having re-treatment other, 16(3.5%) developed Relapse and 3(0.6%) died due to TB. At current (time of interview), 11(2.4%) were re-treatment other, 8(1.7%) were having relapse and 3 (0.6%) were having MDR-TB. High proportion of recurrence was seen in pulmonary TB subjects, the difference was statistically significant (p- value0.001).