Photo de stock - The food prepared by Shankori Shankori, an MDR patient, has been ill for the last three years and was diagnosed with TB seven months ago She did not continue treatment due to poverty However, she did not know that TB treatment and its medicine are provided for free Her husband also left her due to her illness Seriously ill, she came from Morrelganj, Bagerhat to the National Institute of Diseases of Chest and Hospital and got admitted on January 16, 2004 Only her father visits her after a long break Dhaka, Bangladesh August 08, 2005 Bangladesh ranks fifth among the world’s 22 highest burden TB countries Every year around 300,000 new TB cases are filed and almost 70, 0000 die of it Reportedly, 54 per cent of them do not get any treatment at all