While we all are engrossed in battling the Covid pandemic, a more traditional killer continues to wreak havoc. I am talking about Tuberculosis or TB that kills more people in India every year than Kovid. TB now accounts for about half a million deaths or so annually, while Covid has killed a similar number of people in the three years since its inception.
Yet while we all view COVID as a national emergency, we somehow do not equate the rising TB cases and deaths.
In this episode of Nothing But the Truth, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa tackles the new threats that TB presents to us and what India needs to do to eradicate this modern plague.
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Produced by Anna Priyadarshini
Sound Mix By Nitin Rawat