Essential Job Functions

1. Counsel registered index TB patients and their eligible family members for TPT through phone calls, at large private hospitals (that are selected for provision of TPT services), visiting households, etc.
2. Coordination with the DFS for obtaining information about registered index TB patients and their family members.
3. Visit Chest Camps (contact screening camps) for the provision of TPT services to eligible family members of index TB patients.
4. Ensure household contacts of registered index TB patients at large private hospitals are screened via X-ray, checked up by physicians and put on TPT if eligible by physician.
5. Facilitate the household contacts put on TPT in case of adverse events and referred to the physician
6. Ensure TPT medicines are available, and in case of unavailability, report this to the supervisor concerned.
7. Maintain records of contacts, i.e., those counseled and followed up until the outcome declaration.
8. Develop and follow the monthly workplan in coordination with the supervisor.
9. Prepare a field progress report based on the workplan and submit it monthly.
10. Ensure timely data collection and provision to sub-recipients for analysis.
11. Any other task assigned by the supervisor.