MO-TC: Specimen collection and transportation
- Sputum Collection Process
- Spot and early morning sputum sample
- Steps to Ensure a Good Quality Sputum Sample
- Educating patient on Sputum collection and dispensing Sputum cup
- Requesting a Test on Nikshay
- Storing a sputum sample
- Triple Layer packaging specification for specimen carriers
- Modes of Transportation in SCT
- Requirements for Packaging a biological Specimen
- SOP for Packaging for SCT
- Specimen Carriers
- Labelling Specimen Transport Carriers
- Cool Chain Requirement for SCT
- Dispatching the sample to a C&DST Lab
- Patient Turnaround Time from Identification to Treatment Initiation Relative to the Laboratory Technology Used in DR-TB