Mission:

To offer dynamic, comprehensive, and innovative learning experience that will enable health care providers to expand their knowledge and enhance their professional skills to provide uniform high standards of care to the people affected with Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB), in a HUB and SPOKE Model.

Objectives:

  1. To advance the quality of DR-TB clinical care across the country through establishment of a CoE program in a Hub and spoke model 
  2. To build the capacity of Nodal and District DR-TB Centers (N/DDRTBCs) for providing uniform high- quality DR-TB care through continued education, mentorship and short clinical courses.
  3. To provide expertise and clinical opinions for Difficult to Treat TB cases 
  4. To demonstrate DRTB program components like Pulmonary rehabilitation, Palliative care, Thoracic surgery care for which there are no good models exists in the country