Kathmandu. The government aims to make Nepal tuberculosis (TB) free by 2035. However, current statistics show that 44 people still die daily from TB in Nepal, with over 190 new patients being added every day.The reality that nearly 30,000 of the estimated 70,000 current TB patients remain outside the reach of health services poses a significant challenge to disease eradication. The National Tuberculosis Control Centre is currently running various campaigns to address this.This is an edited excerpt from an interview with Dr. Bhuvan Paudel, Director of the National Tuberculosis Control Centre, focusing on the efforts and challenges in eliminating tuberculosis...