DeeBruv said:Its been 8 days after the sputum test for my wife and no call from IOM about the Smear. I am really worried. Is this how they go about it? Please help!
Call them up and ask for their lab. IOM staff will tell you verbally whether sputum smear was positive or negative. They are unable to give you a written report. They have the result of smear within a week .... For sputum culture result, you will have to wait for around 3 months and will then have a Chest Xray. You can ask for result of sputum culture on the day you go for chest xray.