The disease that could destroy all society

The disease that could destroy all society

Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past. It has not disappeared, nor has it become rare. If anything, it has silently tightened its grip on the most vulnerable segments of our population, camouflaged by poverty, stigma, and neglect. Being a medical student, spending hours each day in public hospital wards, I began to notice an unsettling pattern. So many patients, particularly from the lower socioeconomic class, casually mention a history of t…