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Nearly 42% of tuberculosis patients in Nepal outside treatment

Kathmandu, March 24: Around 42 percent of tuberculosis (TB) patients in Nepal remain outside the treatment system, posing a major public health challenge, officials said on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day. According to Dr Bhuvan Paudel, Director of the National Tuberculosis Control Center, an estimated 67,000 new TB cases