When the parents of the six-month-old baby heard her coughing intermittently, they initially weren’t too perturbed. However, taking note of their daughter breathing in gasps, they did take her to a local hospital in Ahmednagar. Doctors there advised the parents to take their daughter to Pune where she could receive further treatment.u00a0The girl arrived in the city last week, and was admitted to the paediatric department at Sassoon Hospital. A test was conducted, and the result was devastating -- she was diagnosed with a TB strain, which is resistant to two or more common drugs, generally known as multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB).>

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