Tuberculosis (TB) survivors and health activists from Mumbai’s Jan Swasthya Andolan have written to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, seeking his urgent intervention in the shortage of essential TB medicines at DOTS and DOTS Plus centres across the country.

The letter, authored by HIV/TB survivor and activist Ganesh Acharya and co-signed by Brinelle D’souza, Co-Convenor of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (Mumbai), requested the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to undertake emergency procurement and reallocation of anti-TB drugs at DOTS and DOTS Plus centres.