At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on AMR, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel said Antimicrobial Resistance is undermining decades of progress made in the field of modern medicine.
In a bid to curb the rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday published its first-ever guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for antibiotic manufacturing.
In a written reply in Rajya Sabha on steps taken to combat AMR, the Minister said the initiatives include constitution of the National Task Force on AMR Containment leading to the development of the National Policy on AMR containment in 2011.
"Hospitals must have well-functioning 24X7 microbiology laboratories actively involved in the management of patients with infectious diseases."
Rampant use of antibiotics, available easily across the counters in our country, is leading to increasing incidence of antimicrobial resistant…
In India, the problem of antibiotic resistance is even more crucial as the country bears a huge burden of of infectious diseases.
