MBA professional and TB survivor-Champion Abhishek Kumar hails from Vaishali in Bihar. He is an entrepreneur who runs a mobile and online ticketing shop with his father in his village. He was diagnosed with MDR-TB in 2014 when he was working as a banquet sales executive at a hotel in Bangalore. During a regular check-up, a chest X-Ray detected an infection in the lungs, and he was subsequently diagnosed with TB. He returned home and approached a doctor at a private hospital, who started him on treatment.