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PRO/EDR> Tuberculosis – India (04): (MH) nosocomial, MDR

Hospital-Related Infection, Tuberculosis -- IndiaCampaigners and a former official overseeing Asia's largest tuberculosis [TB] hospital in Mumbai say staff deaths there are being under-reported, highlighting India's growing struggle to contain multi-drug resistant [MDR] forms of the contagious, airborne disease [TB].Many of India's toughest TB cases end up in the metal cots of the state-run Sewri Hospital, where on a recent Reuters visit open wards were lined with emaciated patients, many left alone Read more [...]