according to a paper by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) economists.
swam 186 miles (300km) across the Caspian Sea and fought off ice lumps and polar bears through the Bering Strait.000 miles (3219km) left to walk before he arrives at his home city of Hull.
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Karl BushbyKarl Bushby set off from Hull in 1998 and has been on the road ever sinceFollowing his 31-day swim across the Caspian Sea last year.
it's a very strange place to be in where suddenly your purpose for living will have a hard stop.I still see some patients come to me with reports of sputum (phlegm) smear microscopy for TB.
sees two TB-related deaths every three minutes.more than half his weekly income.
home to 27% of the world's tuberculosis cases.changing treatment centres involves navigating complex bureaucracy.