DNA accessed medical records of the 1,000-bed Sewri TB Hospital, which revealed that since 1999 as many as 218 staffers have been infected with TB, of which at least 86 have died When 33-year-old Poonam Gaikwad, a staff nurse at Asia's biggest Tuberculosis (TB) Hospital in Sewri, Mumbai, breathed her last on March 4, she weighed a mere 26 kg. She died of extensively-resistant (XDR) TB, which means that a majority of drugs failed to work on her. DNA accessed medical records of the 1,000-bed TB hospital, which revealed that since 1999 to date, as many as 218 staffers have been infected with TB, of which at least 86 have died of the disease. On an average, twelve workers contract TB in...
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