If you don’t fear TB, just visit a TB ward. They are not places for the faint-hearted and definitely not places to linger.

Here you will see the destruction this disease wreaks on the body. Infected people cough so violently they spit up blood and all around once healthy bodies are reduced to skeletal frames. Fathers who should be working to support their families are confined to bed, mothers who should be looking after their children are dejected, and children who should be playing with their friends or at school are listless and lost.

This is a disease of the poor and dispossessed, a sickness so terrible it will take the lives of nearly 60,000 Bangladeshis this year alone.

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