[Focus] Political commitment is vital to eliminate TB
Channel: CNS
Date: 2016-03-19

Political commitment is vital to eliminate TB by 2030, stresses Dr Digambar Behera, former Director of National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases (formerly LRS). Dr Behera has been a widely acknowledged TB and chest disease expert from the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh. This video interview is part of End TB video mini-series of CNS in lead up to World TB Day 2016. 
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Focus, is a CNS video series on current global health and development priorities. This is episode 50. CNS Special Correspondent Rahul Kumar Dwivedi interviewed Dr Behera in February 2016 at 70th National Conference of TB and Chest Diseases (NATCON) in Lucknow, India.
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