AbstractBackground: Tuberculosis remains the cause of death inspite of national anti-tuberculosis program in India. The study was made attempt to evaluate outcome of registered Tuberculosis patients under Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme at Tuberculosis Unit, Pathan, Maharashtra. Method: The present study was record based including all tuberculosis cased registered for treatment at Tuberculosis Unit, Pathan. All this information was collected for the year 2014. Referring quarterly reports of RNTCP, data was collected. Result: In the present, the success rate for PTB was 87.1% and EPTB was 90.5%. Among the pulmonary tuberculosis cases, cure rate was 51.9% while treatment completion rate was 35.2%. Among the EPTB cases, treatment completion rate was 90.5% with death rate 2.4%. The default rate of 3.4%, transferred out rate of 0.4% and 3.4 % failure rate were reported in year 2014. Conclusion: Though microscopic activity and DOTS activity are appropriate there is deficiency in trained personnel and lacking in achievement of treatment outcome as per the guidelines.
Keywords: PTB; EPTB; Pathan; Success rate.