India must raise the standard of living for citizens, besides regulating the use of antibiotics to mitigate Anti-microbial resistance. Explain (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· The recent publication of The Lancet’s global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance an elaborate and studied estimate validated by using counterfactual analysis.
· It identified the pathogens and pathogen-drug combinations that cause such resistance. Bacterial AMR occurs when the drugs used to treat infections become less effective, as a result of the pathogens becoming resistant to the drugs.
· This happens due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics, availability of antibiotics over the counter, poor hygiene and sanitation, antimicrobial use in the farming and poultry industry, lack of vaccines and newer antibiotics, and poor infection control practices in hospitals.
· The Chennai Declaration, a consortium of doctors and health-care institutions against AMR, was also formed in 2012 to draw up a road map.
· No doubt AMR offers humanity one of the most complex challenges that it has faced; but the recognition that solutions are not only in the realm of science is necessary.
· While the scientific community looks for solutions in its ken, governments must raise the standard of living for citizens, provide them accessible and affordable quality health care, besides regulating the sale and use of antibiotics.
· Not doing so in studied haste will only land up eroding the significant health-care gains India has proactively, and painfully at times, secured over the years.
K.JEEVAN 3 years
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