Sewri’s TB Hospital has treated at least 50 to 60 paediatric patients in the age group of three to 16 years since its reopening four months ago. The paediatric ward had been defunct for four years. Considering the lack of paediatric care and the volume of drug-resistant patients, an activist said that the number may be low.

“We have one paediatrician and other doctors assisting him. The ward started functioning again in the last week of August. Before that, we were admitting children in female wards. But we did not take very young children” said Dr Namrata Kaur Bhui, medical superintendent of the Sewri TB hospital.