The best way to remember to take your medicine is to participate in Directly Observed Therapy (DOT). If you are in the DOT Programme, you will meet with a healthcare worker every day or several times a week. You will meet at a place you both agree on. This can be the TB clinic, your home, work, school, or any other convenient location. You will take your medicine at this place while the healthcare worker watches. This ensures that you take the right drugs, in the correct dosage and at the right intervals.  

DOT helps in several ways. The healthcare worker can help you remember to take your medicine and complete your treatment. This means you will get well more quickly. With DOT, you may need to take medicine only 2 or 3 times each week instead of every day, after the initial 2 months of treatment.

The healthcare worker will also make sure that the medicine is working as it should, watch for side effects and answer questions you have.

You will be checked at different times to make sure everything is going well. You should see your doctor or nurse regularly while you are taking your medicine. This should continue until you are cured.

Any member of the public, afflicted with TB.

1. After being diagnosed with TB, arrange appropriate time and place for DOT, with nurse.
2. Adhere to all appointments (arrange alternative times should initial times become inconvenient).
3. Follow all recommendations.

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There are no related fees.

Tuberculosis Control Unit
The Department of Public Health
Poncianna Hill Building
Meeting Street
P. O. Box N-3730
Nassau, N.P.
The Bahamas
Tel. (242) 502-4728
Fax.(242) 502-4874
Opening hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except public holidays