Tuberculosis services

Patients receive free tuberculosis screening, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and health education.

At a glance

Office: Municipal Health Office
Classification: Simple
Who may apply: Paombongueños that: • Is experiencing signs and symptoms of tuberculosis (such as cough lasting two weeks or more, fever, weight loss, night sweats) • Is a household contact / close contact of confirmed tuberculosis patient/s • Is referred by public or private health facilities • Has requiring tuberculosis clearance (if applicable) • Was previously treated tuberculosis patients requiring follow-up
Total fees: None
Total processing time: 1 Hour and 59 Minutes

Requirements

Requirement	Where to get it
Previous Medical Records or Laboratory Results (if available)	Municipal Health Office or previous health facility
Sputum Sample (for symptomatic clients)	To be provided by client during visit

Steps

What you do	What the office does	Fee	Time
Sign Patient's Consent for medical treatment	Give consent form for patient to sign (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	5 Minutes
	Retrieve of Patient’s record (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	5 Minutes
	Record of Patient’s information and vital signs (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	5 Minutes
	Issue a Queuing number (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	1 Minute
Proceed to waiting area and wait for his/her queue number	Call out patient’s queue number (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	30 Minutes
Proceed to Out-Patient Department (OPD) Clinic Room	Conduct of medical consultation (Jose Mari de Jesus, MD – Municipal Health Office)	None	15 Minutes
	Issue a laboratory request/s (if needed), prescription, and medical certificate (if needed) (Jose Mari de Jesus, MD – Municipal Health Office)	None	3 Minutes
Roceed to nurse’s room	Provide TB medicines and Treatment Card (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	20 Minutes
Identify close contacts for Contact Tracing	Record household contacts (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	20 Minutes
	Provide: - Tuberculin Skin Test for children below 5 years old - Chest X-Ray Vouchers for individual 15 years old and above (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	10 Minutes
	Conduct Health education (Celso C. San Antonio, RN – Municipal Health Office)	None	5 Minutes

Tuberculosis services

At a glance

Requirements

Steps

Source

Government

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