Karen Department of Health and Welfare of Annual Report 2011

Table 7. TB Patient Identification and Treatment 2007-2011
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2007-2011
Target population 17,704 11,206 11,518 11,567 12,201 -
Number persons screened 5762 9068 9588 9105 1195 34,718
Percent target population screened 33% 81% 83% 79% 10% -
Persons completing sputum testing 49 45 122 97 80 393
Number sputum positive smears 4 15 16 18 11 64
Number patients cured 3 10 13 9 8 50
Patients currently in treatment 0 0 0 0 2 2
Patients completing treatment, but
no record of final negative smear 1 3 0 0 0 4
Patients transferred after relapse 0 1 1 0 0 2
Patients transferred out after
positive smear at 3 months 0 0 0 0 0 0
Patients who died during treatment 0 1 1 1 0 3
Patients who left to be treated at a
Burmese hospital 0 0 1 1 1 3
Figure 5 shows the numbers of identified TB cases in each status at the end of 2010. The status
of being transferred following a positive smear after three months is omitted, because the
number of such patients is zero.
Figure 5. Current Status of All TB Cases identified by KTBP 2007-2011
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