Main reason is lack of awareness. She has since died. Like the others, if he gets the right drugs and takes them correctly for several months, he will have a fighting chance against the disease. Many sufferers in India, says Dr Raman Kakar who is a TB specialist, miss that chance. There's no reason for so much of death and disaster.
Main reason is lack of awareness.
Centres where they can test sputum for resistance to the main drugs used to treat TB are all too rare for a country with such a large TB problem. Sputum clinics which test resistance to drugs used to treat TB are scarce. The only other drugs available are many times more expensive. The battleground, says Dr Manmohan Singh of the TB Association of India, is in the back streets of India's towns and in the rural areas. One patient, if he is untreated in the community and he is left in the community, then he can infect at least 10 patients more.