Anti-Microbial Resistance: Global Health Threat

AMR: Indian Threat

  • A growing list of Infections: Such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning, gonorrhoea, and foodborne diseases – are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics become less effective.
  • An Overburdened Public Health System: Limited laboratory capacity for ethology-based diagnosis and appropriately targeted treatment, inexpensive and widely available antibiotics without prescriptions.
  • Infection Prevention Control (IPC): There are inconsistent Infection Prevention Control (IPC) practices as well as lack of standardized effective surveillance platforms that monitor healthcare-associated infections (HAI).
  • Cost & Mortality: Antibiotic resistance leads to higher medical costs, prolonged hospital stays, and increased mortality.

Measures by India

  • NAP-AMR: National action ....
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