He cuts a lone figure in the fading dusk light, clutching a laptop bag in one hand and an oversized grass basket in the other. His salt and pepper hair slightly disheveled after a long day, the Eastern Cape health'€™s head honcho Siva Pillay looks over his shoulder and grins: '€œI should have come in my other bakkie, I could have shown you those bullet holes'€.

South Africa'€™s Medicines Control Council (MCC) has confirmed that it will continue to deny compassionate access to a TB drug that for many drug resistant patients is their last hope.