Patient satisfaction with directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration by lay health workers in rural Eswatini

Background: The human resources for health crisis in rural Eswatini led to a novel community-based multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment strategy based on task-shifting, that is delegation of directly observed treatment (DOT) and administration of MDR-TB injections, traditionally restricted to professional nurses, to lay community treatment supporters (CTSs). Aim: This study assessed the level of patient satisfaction with receiving community-based MDR-TB care from a CTS. Setting: The study was conducted at three MDR-TB-treating facilities in the mostly rural Shiselweni region. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of a purposive sample of 78 patients receiving DOT and intramuscular MDR-TB injections from CTSs was carried out in 2017. Descriptive statistics and regressions were calculated. Results: A high overall general patient satisfaction score for receiving community-based MDR-TB care from a CTS was observed. Adherence counselling, confidentiality, provider selection and treatment costs significantly (p < 0.05) influenced satisfaction. A large majority (n = 62; 79.5%) of patients indicated that they would likely recommend their significant others to receive MDR-TB care from a CTS. Respondents identified the need to provide CTSs with adequate training, regular supervision and sufficient incentives and also to broaden the scope of their services. Conclusion: This study observed that task-shifting of DOT and MDR-TB injection administration to CTSs was supported from a patient perspective. However, adherence counselling, confidentiality, provider selection and treatment costs should be taken into account in community-based MDR-TB care programming. Further to the patients, community-based tuberculosis care could be enhanced by improving CTSs' training, supervision and incentives, and broadening the scope of their services

Localisation intravesicale d'une broche d'osteosynthese (a propos d'un cas)

La variete de corps etrangers introduits dans l'appareil genito- urinaire defie l'imagination et peut confronter l'urologue aux difficultes de leur extraction. Si leur presence releve souvent d'une pratique douteuse d'origine psychiatrique; il faut noter la possibilite d'une migration a partir des espaces perivesicaux lors d'une chirurgie de voisinage ainsi qu'une introduction accidentelle durant une intervention transvesicale. Les symptomes du bas appareil urinaire; non specifiques; sont les circonstances fortuites de decouverte de corps etrangers intravesicaux. Bien que le pronostic vital ne soit pas engage; l'extraction chirurgicale ou endoscopique s'avere necessaire du fait de l'inflammation severe associee aux dommages vesicaux secondaires a ce corps etranger.Nous rapportons le cas d'un jeune patient admis aux urgences chez qui on trouve une broche d'osteosynthese compliquee d'une lithiase situee dans la vessie