Shillong, June 14: The State TB Office under the umbrella of National Health Mission (NHM), Meghalaya held a 2-day ‘Capacity Building of Front-Line Staff on Counselling Soft Skills’ on June 13 – 14, 2023 at The Habitat Shillong in collaboration with Saksham Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and supported by XIM University, Bhubaneswar and Saksham Pravaah.

Dr. M. Mawrie, State TB Officer, inaugurated the programme. Addressing the health staff, he reminded about the state and country goals towards TB Elimination by 2025. He informed them that it is important for every person affected by tuberculosis and their family members to be counselled at every opportunity, to address information gaps and to enable informed decision-making.

The training’s objective was to train the frontline staff, which includes Senior Treatment Supervisor and TB Health Visitor about social determinants of TB, introduction, principle and skills of counselling. Through this training, the staffs were taught to utilise the skills of counselling and the way of approach while treating TB community.

The training designed and implemented by TISS was entirely participatory focusing on practicing counselling skills and experiential in nature.

The important message for all the health staffs while working with TB community is to have non- judgemental approach and be empathetic towards TB patients.

To address the gap, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has come up with a national helpline number 1800-11-6666 where anyone can call the number and get free TB counselling and treatment support 24×7.

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