TB is continuing to devastate lives in India because of the government’s inability to regulate an exploitive private health sector, and to fill gaps in the supply of live-saving medicines. “You have TB,” my general practitioner said. These three words changed my life,” writes Deepti Chavan in The BMJ, who was treated by private practitioners in Mumbai. A year into the treatment, she was told she had multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) and needed surgery.
Charan was 16 when she first started coughing. It was in the middle of school exams. After months of incessant coughing, a chest x-ray confirmed TB. It took six years of medicines, 400 injections, and two major surgeries to cure her.

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