Days after a Mumbai-based hospital reported India’s first case of total drug-resistant tuberculosis, the Union Health Ministry has dispatched a team to Mumbai for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation and determine the threat it poses to public health.

TDR tuberculosis, which is yet to be recognised by the World Health Organisation, is a condition when patients do not respond to first or second line drugs, making it virtually incurable.

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