With tuberculosis (TB) emerging as India’s biggest health threat, the Union health ministry plans to pay every private doctor who successfully treats a TB patient.

With thousands of tuberculosis patients going undiagnosed, the Union health ministry plans to purchase more than 100 additional Gene Xpert machines next year for speedier detection so that more people can be brought under the treatment net.

Indian scientists have created a common drug candidate capable of tackling tuberculosis (TB) and malaria–the nation’s two most common health problems–though it will take several years before the breakthrough in the laboratory is translated into a medicine.