Health authorities clueless about over 31,000 tuberculosis patients

Urban slums, marginalised dwellings, monasteries and prisons deemed prone to TB spread.

A few weeks ago, health workers from the National Tuberculosis Control Center in Bhaktapur went to a Musahar settlement in Bardibas Municipality of Mahottari district for surveillance of TB patients. Health workers screened 263 people in the settlement, and two were found infected with the deadly disease.