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Roles of Accredited Social Health Activist [ASHA] for TB Service Delivery at ABHWCs
Learning Objectives- Understand the roles and responsibilities of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in tuberculosis (TB) service delivery at Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (ABHWCs).
- Learn how ASHAs contribute to TB awareness, case finding, and referral in the community.
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Under the overall guidance of Community Health Officer, the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) at Ayushman Bharath-Health and Wellness Centre (AB-HWC) perform the following roles:
- Awareness generation about Tuberculosis (TB) in the village during home visits/survey, community meetings, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Days (VHSND) etc.
- Filling of the Community Based Assessment Checklist (CBAC) forms and identification of presumptive TB patients in the community
- Mobilize and preferably accompany presumptive TB patients to the nearby AB-HWC Sub Health Centre (SHC)
- Sample collection and transportation to peripheral health institutes (SHC/Primary Health Centre/Urban PHC) as per the local need/requirement, following essential infection practices such as handwashing/hand sanitization, wrapping of sputum cup/falcon tube with tissue paper, carrying sample to peripheral health institution (PHI) in zip-lock cover/leak proof container/ box etc.
- Work as a treatment supporter for local TB patients and provide TB Preventive Therapy to eligible population
- Submit patient’s bank details to the health facility for Nikshay Poshan Yojna
- Counsel patients on treatment adherence, nutrition, healthy lifestyles and cough etiquettes
- Monitor the nutritional status of patients and provide feedback to the multipurpose worker/ community health officer
- Ensure treatment adherence and timely follow-up of patients
- Update TB patient’s treatment cards/updating of health diaries provided by the health and wellness centres duly updating the family folders wherever required
- Alert patients for Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR), if any, and facilitate seeking medical care
- Motivate household contacts of confirmed TB patients for undergoing TB screening and eligible high-risk population for taking complete chemoprophylaxis
- Participate in vulnerability assessment of the population by doing household survey (during the CBAC enumeration and further annual exercises or other household level surveys done by AB-HWCs) and in active case finding among identified vulnerable population
- Discuss TB related agenda in VHSND/Mahila Arogya Samiti (MAS) meetings.
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