Kolkata, 3 March 2024: With an intent to raise awareness and educate people around the condition ‘Anti-microbial resistance’ and the public health problems related to it, Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) joined hands with the nation’s leading doctors to organise a conference to share their insights on the prevailing condition in India.
Antimicrobial resistance occurs when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs pinned to kill them, resulting in their growth. Resistant infections can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, to treat. One of the major reasons causing this is the inappropriate usage of antimicrobials, and sometimes inadequate diagnosis. It’s imperative for healthcare providers to prescribe antimicrobials appropriately, and not get overwhelmed with insistent patients. Additionally, understanding the increasing need to prevent hospital-acquired infections that lead to such conditions is paramount. Public Private Partnership (PPP) model in the healthcare industry can possibly check the incidence of this as it helps in ensuring that the medical infrastructure is leveraged at best through optimum utilization. Raising awareness among the public on the use and abuse of antibiotics can be the first step in bringing a sustainable change in behaviour.
Calling attention to the global public health threat, that has directly killed nearly 3 lac people in India, including newborns in 2019 alone, leading doctors like Dr. S K Todi, Dr. Prakash Shastri, Dr. Subramanian Swaminathan, Dr. Sanjith Saseedharan, Dr. Dhruva Chaudhry, and Dr. Ajoy Sarkar broke the ice around the myth that antibiotics can treat everything without any side-effects.
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