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On World Tuberculosis Day, Catholic Sisters Tend to Bangladesh’s Sick and Forgotten

Sister Roberta Pignone, a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate, consults with a tuberculosis patient at the Damien Hospital in Khulna, Bangladesh, on Feb. 17, 2023.

Catholic women religious at two hospitals in Bangladesh have spent decades treating tuberculosis patients whom the government and society have largely overlooked.

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