‘Drug resistance surveillance offers multiple advantages’
The Hindu
Health experts and doctors have called for intensive surveillance to draw an estimate of the number of people in Telangana who have developed resistance to antibiotics, medicines which have become red
Health experts and doctors have called for intensive surveillance to draw an estimate of the number of people in Telangana who have developed resistance to antibiotics, medicines which have become redundant and need not be procured by the government, and other advantages.
President of Infection Control Academy of India, Ranga Reddy Burri said surveillance or research to understand the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) level in the State will help figure out four things — microbes prevalent in a patient group or locality; the antibiotics that can be discarded; which antibiotics have to be kept in reserve, and define the medicine purchasing policy.
Head of Critical Care Division at Continental Hospitals, Palepu Gopal said antibiotics are divided into three categories — regular, higher end and reserved.