Journal of the Indian Medical Association
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This article focuses on issues and challenges regarding why tuberculosis (TB) remains as horrible scourge to mankind even today that too in the era of nanotechnology. It tries to evoke a uniform consciousness among treating doctorsboth at government and private levels to follow a uniform diagnostic algorithm and treatment protocols which is very much readily available under Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) throughout our nation. Even today TB is the singlemost major infectious killer disease which claims 2 deaths in every 3 minutes in India which has one-fifth of global TB burden. ⋯ If the guidelines are maintained one hundred per cent with full involvement of Indian Medical Association/Indian Academy of Pediatrics and various other medical organisations then the author can confidently feels that the day is not far to combat and contain the horrible scourge. Time has come that every medical practitioner should take an oath to evolve a uniform consciousness to adhere to the guidelines prescribed under RNTCP DOTS which may prevent the future generation to succumb to the horrible scourge of TB. Shall we?