Tuberculosis — India
A report assessing the country’s TB programme stops just short of saying that it has been derailed. A million tuberculosis cases in India have escaped detection, says leaked report.
The latest assessment of India’s National Tuberculosis policy has noted that nearly 10 lakh cases [a lakh is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to 100 000] of people living with tuberculosis in India have either gone undiagnosed or unreported. More worrying is the fact that for nearly 2 years, the TB
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