Sewri TB hospital staff wear single-use masks for a week

Despite the growing scare of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, the hospital management has been putting cost-cutting over protection of staff Even as the central and the state governments are busy containing the spiralling TB situation in the state, staffers at the city's only TB hospital in Sewri - perhaps the most vulnerable to tubercle bacilli - are being made to wear single-use disposable masks for days altogether. They were initially asked to don the masks for a whole fortnight, and

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