Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis notification and outcome in a district of South Gujarat.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_428_24 and PMC identifier 11668376.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic affected the health care services worldwide, with the target of END TB 2025; it was important to make sure that the TB notification and linkage services were not hampered. The current study aims to document the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB notification and treatment services. To document the impact of COVID-19 on notification and comparison of their outcome between pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 era. Programmatic data of 9893 notified TB cases reported from Surat rural between 2019 and 2021 were collected from Nikshay portal through DTO Surat. Detailed comparison of pre- and COVID-19 era was performed using stratified analysis. There was a significant (<i>P</i> = 0.02) 29% decline in cases reported in 2020 as compared to the cases reported in the previous year. The impact of COVID-19 was also seen on mortality of the reported cases (18% increase). The overall proportion of treatment failure was increased (28%), whereas difference of 20% was seen in cases where treatment regimen was required to be changed. Despite the overall impact of COVID-19 on TB services (2020), the health department has proactively countered and bounce back in 2021 with an overall increase in notification and treatment services.