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Role of a DTO
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The District TB Officer is the manager the programme at the district level. They have various key responsibilities which can be discussed under the following heads:
- Planning
- Prepare the annual PIP and budget of the district and share it with the state
- Identify interventions/solutions to local problems
- Prepare proposals and implement it
- Locally adapt the strategies of the NSP toward TB Elimination to the district/ state
- Execution/Implementation
- Programmatic interventions (areas that are high importance to the district/state)
- New interventions identified by the state/district
- Supervision
- Planning supervisory visits
- Supervise program service delivery in comparison to expected quality standards
- Provide handholding of service delivery personnel to ensure quality through supportive supervision
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Monitoring of the program performance against standard indicators (TB index) prescribed by NTEP.
- Monitoring of the progress against the PIP prepared
- Ensuring updated data base of subdistrict and peripheral level program managers and stakeholders
- Reviewing and analysing data entry in platforms like Nikshay and Nikshay Aushadhi
- Collection and use of additional program management data
- Identify areas (Time, Place, Person) of low performance
- Provide Feedback
- Conduct periodic programmatic reviews for all of the above
- Administration
- Procurements and supply chain management- managing procurements of supplies and timely availability of optimum stocks of drugs
- Logistics management – managing stocks, requisitions, reconstitution of the Patient wise boxes Vendor and contract Management.
- Finance Management (Budgeting) – Preparing and utilizing finances adequately
- State/district level human resource management
- Advocacy and coordination (for securing resources/commitment as per plan)
- Ensure coordination with different levels of NTEP (central, state, district and sub district)
- Identifying NGOs and Private Practitioners for partnership through various schemes and enter into MoU.
- Coordinating and liaison with stakeholders of the program like medical Colleges, NGOs, professional organizations, private practitioners etc.
- Collecting and compiling necessary documents for disbursal of Grant in Aid to the NGOs and PPS.
- Training
- Planning and organization of trainings
- Presentation of standard training material
- Demonstration
- Conduct Knowledge Sharing and cross-learning activities
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