In Mumbai, Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Clinic Runs Even During Coronavirus Lockdown

Amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, treatment for patients for other infectious diseases could have suffered massively had it not been the effort that organisations like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders put in. MSF provides free, comprehensive and individualised treatment at its independent private clinic in Mumbai to people with severe forms of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). MSF also works in close collaboration with the national TB programme to reduce the mortality and morbidity linked to TB in Mumbai and their clinic went beyond its defined charter to ensure TB patients do not suffer due to the Coronavirus induced lockdown.