STUDY OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL PROFILE OF MDR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS ON INJECTABLE CONTAINING SHORTER COURSE REGIMEN ATTENDING A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN NORTH INDIA.

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease that is a major cause of ill health and one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Until the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, TB was the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Multidrug- resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a health security threat. Only about one in three people with drug resistant TB accessed treatment in 2020. It was a hospital based, non-randomized and without control group observational and prospectiveMaterial And Methods study, in cohort of DRTB patients conducted at Nodal DRTB Centre and Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases S. N. Medical College Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India 53.89% male and 46.11 % females were affected in the study. 65% patients and 35% patients belong toResult rural and urban populations areas respectively. Cough was present in 100% patients followed by the fever which was present in 95.56% patients. Cough with expectorations was present in 94.44% patients and loss of appetite in 78.89% patients.CONCLUSION: Early detection will be helpful in not only modifying the disease course but also delaying and preventing fatal complication hence patient may be treated earliest by various measures.