SOP – Malaria Microscopy - NVBDCP

Quality Assurance of Malaria Diagnostic tests• Form 05 (MF 8) – Maintained in the PHC, it provides agency wise details ofblood smears collected (by individual MPW, FTD, etc), date of collection andsubmission at the laboratory and date of receipt of result. It is usually referredfor cross checking the activities of the MPWs and time taken by the LT toprovide the results. It is useful for the supervisors to see the performance ofindividual field worker.• Form 06 (MF 9) – Used for village/sub-centre wise monthly analysis ofepidemiological situation.• Form 07 (MF 10) – Provides details of the institutional surveillance• Form 08 (MF 16) – Provides details of the services provided by communityvolunteers and by malaria clinicsData on these forms are considered as the minimum essential under the NVBDCP.The Medical officer I/C PHC should check all data forms on a daily basis not only forcompleteness but also to ensure that they are being filled clearly and information collectedmake sense, specially regarding the services provided to the patients.Care should also be taken to ensure that samples are correctly labeled and that alllaboratory results are reported correctly and properly, as many of these would be used forpreparation of test panels for EQA of RDTs.These MFs would be filled/maintained at PHC level. However in the district level, data entryMUST BE carried out in the web based NAMMIS. As mentioned earlier, all the districtsacross the country are networked with computerized reporting system (For more details referwww.nvbdcp.gov.in).As the staff associated with malaria control programme is acquainted with these MFs,Dte. of NVBDCP envisages that no change would be made in these forms and thesewould be used, as such, for EQA programme as well.SOP – Malaria Microscopy© Copyright to Dte. NVBDCP Only. Any modification are prohibited