While the BMC’s effort to combat tuberculosis — with a new TB awareness campaign — is laudable, the corporation is facing criticism for having sidelined its grassroots health workers before the programme could even begin. For, instead of hosting the campaign’s launch at its own TB hospital in Sewri, or at the Mayor’s Bungalow, it has opted for the glitzier five-star J W Marriott Hotel.

The J W Marriott Hotel in Juhu, where the event will be held tomorrow evening. File pic