Fig. 1

The care-seeking pattern of TB patients onwards of their first contact. The figure shows the top 10 care-seeking patterns that followed the first contact with each of the following: a a PHC, b a private clinic, c a public hospital, d a private hospital, and e a pharmacy, practitioner of alternative medicine, or other health provider. Each coloured block indicates the type of healthcare provider visited. Each rightmost box indicates the provider where the TB diagnosis was confirmed. The percentages to the right of each graph are the percentages of each patterns. Eighteen percents of patterns are not captured in these graphs