RESPONSE: FACTORS RELATED TO THE SUCCESS OF THE TREATMENT PROGRAM OF MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS IN POLYCLINIC OF MDR-TB OF THE GENERAL HOSPITAL OF UNDATA PALU, INDONESIA

[摘要] Tuberculosis (TB) still becomes a high burdenfor Indonesia, which is not only because of theTB itself (Al Asyary, 2017; A. Asyary,Purwantyastuti, & Junadi, 2017), but also itsresistant to several first-line TB drug variance,namely multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB).I read previous publication ondeterminant of successful MDR-TB treatmentat Palu, Sulawesi Tengah Province, Indonesia(Napirah, Wandira, & Aulia, 2017). Napirah,et al. presented a cross sectional study intertiary healthcare facility, which revealed thatthere were significant relationships betweenknowledge, regularity of treatment, drugcontrol, drug side effects, quality of healthstaffs and the success of multidrug resistanttuberculosis program (Napirah et al., 2017).