Amitabh Bachchan, industrialist Ratan Tata join hands

The United States Ambassador to India, Richard Varma on Thursday launched the 'Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-free India' along with Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Trusts.

Aiming to engage the corporate sector to further strengthen the Government of India's 'Call to Action for a tuberculosis free India,' a group of corporate leaders joined the trio for a dialogue to engage this sector directly in effort to eradicate TB.

TB has been one of the deadliest diseases in India. As per the figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) global TB report 2014, around 2.40 lakh Indians die every year and 61,000 suffer from multidrug resistant TB.

 

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