Supply chain Management and Training & Capacity building of Officials & Staff Personnel in the RNTCP programme.
About Client
RNTCP uses the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) strategy and reaches over a billion people in 632 districts/reporting units. The RNTCP is responsible for carrying out the Government of India’s five year TB National Strategic Plans. The large scale implementation of the Indian government’s Revised National TB Control Program (RNTCP) (sometimes known as RNTCP 1) was started in 1997.With the RNTCP both diagnosis and treatment of TB are free. The initial objectives of the RNTCP in India were to achieve and maintain a TB treatment success rate of at least 85% among new sputum positive (NSP) patients and to achieve and maintain detection of at least 70% of the estimated new sputum positive people in the community.
Project Description
The broad scope of work for this assignment comprised of Field Visits to conduct Supply Chain Management Monitoring & Capacity Building Training.
As part of this project, SAMS conducted 106 field visits to districts to monitor the Supply Chain Management and conduct Supply Chain Management Trainings. 61 trainings were conducted across the selected districts and nearly 2000 participants were covered as part of the training.
Each field visit entailed a visit to at least 2 TUs and PHCs per district. During the Field visits, systems, practices and procedures presently followed by the State/Districts & Block PHCs in respect of supply chain management of drugs & other supplies were observed and reported. Supply chain processes and issues concerning inventory management were ascertained. Other aspects reviewed among other processes were availability of drugs, Expiry management and storage facilities.
(1) Trainings were mostly conducted at the respective State Capital, incorporating modular training and interactive exercises.
(2) Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Manual for District & Block PHC Level were covered at length.
(3) Practical exercises were incorporated, covering the Stock Register, WRDR, Reconstitution, Reporting formats-MRPML and QRPML etc.
(4) Orientation on Training Manual was also conducted.
(5) Emphasis was placed on the usage of new operational and reporting formats by districts and their down lines.
(6) The training covered upto 50 Officials & Staff personnel in each session including STOs, DTOs, WHO Medical Consultants, State and district level pharmacists and other staff members dealing in drug management.
(7) The trainings were designed to include modular session, power point presentation, group work and quiz, spread over two days.
(8) Training kits comprising of copies of SOPs, Training Manual & Stationery items were provided to the participants.