[5] Udwadia runs a free weekly TB clinic at the Hinduja Hospital, which he set up in 1992, on his return to India, after his training in the UK.
[13] It is the busiest outpatient clinic at the Hinduja hospital,[13] with patients traveling from many parts of the country, and some lining up overnight, to be seen by him.
[1][4] In December 2011, Udwadia documented twelve cases of what he called totally drug-resistant ('TDR') TB, a strain of the disease that seemed to show resistance to all known treatments.
[13] While the WHO eventually said that defining resistance beyond XDR-TB was not recommended,[4] Udwadia's research drew the attention of the medical community to the growing epidemic of drug-resistant TB.
[7] The government increased the budget for the program, and dispatched rapid GeneXpert machines, which can conduct highly sensitive molecular diagnostic testing.