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Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Gujarat is extremely resistant to TB drugs



Gujarat has recorded the second highest number ofextreme drug-resistant TB since the discovery of the disease in India threeyears ago; the state has recorded the third highest number of deaths afterMaharashtra and Delhi
Thirty-four-year-old Anita Agarwal (name changed) was admitted to TB Hospital on the Civil campus in Ahmedabad. When she did not recover after six months of treatment, worried doctors tested her sputum, only to discover that she had developed third-line drug-resistant TB.

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Labels: Ahmedabad , Ahmedabad Medical Association , Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation , DOTS , Dr Rajesh Solanki , extreme drug resistant TB , health , investigation , Maharashtra , RTI , TB Hospital , TB specialist , XDR-TB
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