Problems faced by tuberculosis patients during COVID-19 pandemic: Urgent need to intervene

• This is the first survey which assessed the problems faced by tuberculosis patients during lockdown. • Almost one fifth of patients (17.33%) defaulted tuberculosis treatment due to lockdown as they could not get the medicine. • Another one fifth of patients (20.96%) had to purchase medicine from p...

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Autores principales: Rai, Deependra Kumar, Kumar, Rahul, Pandey, Sanjay Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33308666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2020.07.013
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description • This is the first survey which assessed the problems faced by tuberculosis patients during lockdown. • Almost one fifth of patients (17.33%) defaulted tuberculosis treatment due to lockdown as they could not get the medicine. • Another one fifth of patients (20.96%) had to purchase medicine from private pharmacy instead of getting Government supplied FDC preparation. • 91 (66.6%) patients agreed that staying indoors will prevent them from COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73722522020-07-21 Problems faced by tuberculosis patients during COVID-19 pandemic: Urgent need to intervene Rai, Deependra Kumar Kumar, Rahul Pandey, Sanjay Kumar Indian J Tuberc Correspondence • This is the first survey which assessed the problems faced by tuberculosis patients during lockdown. • Almost one fifth of patients (17.33%) defaulted tuberculosis treatment due to lockdown as they could not get the medicine. • Another one fifth of patients (20.96%) had to purchase medicine from private pharmacy instead of getting Government supplied FDC preparation. • 91 (66.6%) patients agreed that staying indoors will prevent them from COVID-19. Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-12 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7372252/ /pubmed/33308666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2020.07.013 Text en © 2020 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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