After Months Of Diagnostic Delay, Migrant Worker Could Access TB Services Only When Community Health Worker Met Him – OpEd

A migrant worker who was sick for over three months, actively sought medical help and advice, but his health kept deteriorating. Despite having constant cough, fever, and increasing weakness since months, neither he nor his treating doctor(s) thought of TB. And this did not happen in an area with low TB rates but in India’s...