Evaluation of New Tuberculosis Patients Followed in Konya Mümtaz Koru Dispensary Between Years 1998 and 2001

We evaluated retrospectively 230 new pulmonary tuberculosis from 395 tuberculosis patient that were applied to Konya Mümtaz Koru Dispansery between years 1998 and 2001. 123 patients (53.5%) was smear (+) and 24 (10.4%) was smear (-). 83 (36.1%) patients had been diagnosed without suputum test. The percentages of suputum test and bacteriological diagnosis were 27% and 25.3% in 1998, 70% and 51.1% in 1999, 83.3% and 77.8% in 2000, 96% and 74% in 2001 respectively. 57 (46.34%) of the 123 ARB (+) cases was treated as cure and 55 (44.71%) as completion of the treatment. Our total treatment success and cure rates were 85% and 5% in 1998, 91.6% and 50% in 1999, 95.2% and 40.5% in 2000, 89.1% and 72.9% in 2001 respectively. %54.4 of pulmonary tuberculosis cases were 15-34 years old. Although the rate of the application of patients to the dispansery were low between 1998 and 2001 the rate of bacteriolojical diagnosis was increased throughout the years but our cure rates did not reach to the suggecful level of WHO.