Under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) over 1500 TB cases are detected in Goa annually but current rate of detection of 58 per cent is less than the rate fixed under RNTCP.
One of the objectives of RNTCP is to achieve and maintain a cure rate of at least 85 per cent among newly detected infectious (new sputum smear positive).
Dr Jose De Sa, Chief Medical Officer, in-charge