Private doctors in India prescribe wrong tuberculosis drugs

Many private doctors in India are violating tuberculosis guidelines by giving their patients wrong combinations and inappropriate doses, a study has found. This may be a factor contributing to the rise of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in India.

The Indian health ministry's tuberculosis control programme detects 1.5 million new cases a year, but tuberculosis still kills around 1200 people each day. The study, conducted by a government tuberculosis centre in …