Now researchers said the Wirelessly Observed Therapy (WOT) is more effective and has the potential to transform TB treatment adherence. There is no limit to the number of patients WOT can monitor. TB patients are put on several drugs for several months. She said DOT is resource intensive, intrusive and expensive with limited implementation in resource limited settings contributing to increased rates of resistant multi-drug resistant TB. WOT digital data has potential to provide digital summaries within minutes to TB control programmes.

Source: bd News24 October 12, 2017 20:03 UTC