2015 · Q14
The mandate of the scheme entitled `Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS)' launched by WHO is to ensure that
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- Adoctors treat patients with medicine for a short duration
- Bdoctors do not start treatment without a trial
- Cpatients complete their course of drug
- Dpatients voluntarily take vaccines
Explanation
DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) is WHO's tuberculosis-control strategy in which a trained observer watches the patient swallow every dose of medicine. Its mandate is to guarantee that patients complete the full course of anti-TB drugs, because interrupted treatment is what breeds multidrug-resistant TB. It is not about shortening treatment, running drug trials, or voluntary vaccination. Hence C.