PILIBHIT: The absence of a critical medicine, "clofazimine 100 mg", at the district tuberculosis center in Pilibhit has become a major roadblock in the Centre's National Tuberculosis Elimination Program, which aims to make India tuberculosis-free by 2025.
Dr. Hari Dutt Nemi, the superintendent of the district TB centre, said the hospital has faced a shortage of this medicine for the past one and a half months, despite sending requisitions to the state medical administration three times for its free distribution.