A good proportion of PwTB in West Bengal is receiving the nutritional supports under NPY-DBT or PMTBMBA or through both the schemes. The schemes are impactful in terms of significantly increasing treatment success rate & significantly decreasing LTFU & Death rate. NPY-DBT scheme seems to be more impactful in terms of better coverage, association with higher treatment success rate & lower LTFU & Death rate.

Arranging health camps especially TB screening & IEC activities during the Duare Sarkar Camp was a positive initiative in terms of diagnosis of additional number of PwTB and Nikshay Mitra (donors) for additional nutrition for the PwTBs.

100 days campaign was fruitful in terms of additional TB case detection including asymptomatic TB cases in West Bengal. With provision of a greater number of X-ray machines, especially portable X-ray suitable for hard-to-reach areas, a greater number of cases could be detected through such campaign.

TB pertussis co-exists. Presenting symptom can be very similar. Screening & testing of both the diseases can be arranged in an integrated way. Though the additional yield for NTEP was negligible but for IDSP it was significant. The West Bengal model of bidirectional TB-pertussis screening may be replicated in other endemic areas.