Lampung Provincial Government Allocates 217 Housing Units for Tuberculosis Patients

The Lampung Provincial Government has allocated 217 units of Self-help Housing Stimulant Assistance (BSPS) for tuberculosis (TBC) patients in 2026. “Cross-sectoral intervention is crucial in dealing with TBC, and this can be done through the provision of healthy homes for people with TBC,” said Lampung Deputy Governor Jihan Nurlela in a statement in Bandarlampung on Thursday. She stated that delayed TBC treatment not only impacts health but also reduces community productivity and has the potential to worsen a family’s economic condition. She added that other TBC handling efforts can be carried out by increasing the coverage of Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) for household contacts of TBC patients as an effort to break the chain of transmission. “Furthermore, it is also necessary to accelerate the establishment of TBC Alert Villages. To date, West Tulang Bawang Regency does not yet have a Decree on TBC Alert Villages,” she said. Meanwhile, in other regencies and cities in Lampung Province, 252 TBC Alert Villages have been formed. “West Tulang Bawang Regency shows a very high treatment success rate, but still faces serious challenges in finding and reporting new cases to the Tuberculosis Information System (SITB), so this needs to be improved as soon as possible,” she added. According to her, the high treatment success rate also confirms that the main challenge at present is finding undiagnosed TBC patients so that transmission can be stopped immediately. “Therefore, to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 TBC elimination target, the West Tulang Bawang Regency Government can contribute together with the Lampung Provincial Health Office to develop micro-planning down to the community health centre level to strengthen the implementation of Active Case Finding through detailed target mapping and periodic monitoring of achievements during the July-November 2026 period,” she said. Previously, West Tulang Bawang Regency recorded a Treatment Success Rate (TSR) of 94 percent for Drug-Sensitive (SO) TBC patients and 100 percent for Drug-Resistant (RO) TBC patients. However, the Case Notification Rate (CNR) has only reached 15 percent, or 120 cases successfully found out of an estimated 826 cases, making it one of the areas with the lowest TBC notification achievement nationally.