Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases Dr Shashidhar Buggi observed that TB cases are being managed and treated under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) since National Tuberculosis Control Programme did not evoke any satisfying results from 1964 to 1993.
A treatment success rate of 82 per cent was achieved under the RNTCP as of 2012. Nearly 51 Medical officers, 158 lab technicians, 178 TB health visitors have been appointed on contractual basis for the programme, according to Health Department officials. All 42 medical colleges are involved in RNTCP. Each medical college is being provided a medical officer and a lab technician and a TB health visitor to implement the programme.