Dr Daksha Shah, Mumbai’s TB officer, attributed the decrease in the number of fatalities to better patient services in diagnosis and treatment.

One in every 20 children, who were diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) at Mumbai’s private hospitals between September 2014 and April 2016, had drug-resistant forms of the infection, revealed data by Private Provider Interface Agency (PPIA), which operates under the supervision of the BMC. Under the PPIA initiative, 1,826 paediatric cases were reported by 116 doctors during the period.