A doctor checks the chest x-rays of someone who is diagnosed with tuberculosis, during a routine consultation at the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Mumbai, on March 22, 2022. Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images Mumbai —

Relentless coughing echoes through the Mumbai suburb of Govandi, where families live cramped under tarpaulin and salvaged wood. The narrow lanes are waterlogged and airless, and here in India’s financial capital, a deadly disease is lurking at every door.

Doctors on the ground estimate that tuberculosis has infiltrated almost every second home of this eastern urban compound, killing residents and robbing many families of their livelihoods.

The local crisis is a microcosm of a national health care crisis. India is home to 27% of the world’s TB cases and records an

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