Despite global efforts to combat it tuberculosis (TB) remains the world’s deadliest infectious killer. Each day over 4000 people lose their lives to tuberculosis (TB) according to WHO. Nearly 30000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease the organisation said. The WHO commemorates World Tuberculosis Day on March 24 every year to raise public awareness about the devastating consequences of TB and to boost efforts to end the global TB epidemic. World Tuberculosis Day marks the day when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB. The discovery he made in 1882 opened