Among these 30 cases, in 19, doctors had prescribed inappropriate antibiotics. On June 30, 13 patients at a hospital developed complications after routine cataract surgery. Investigations into the incident are currently ongoing. Prescribing too many antibiotics and empirical treatment of patients by doctors – treatments based on medically-educated guesswork and just experience — are the reasons behind the increasing resistance towards antibiotics of various types of bacteria.
In a study published in March 2016, researchers from an Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad stated that of the 102 patients they had studied over six months, 30 cases were prescribed drugs to which bacteria were resistant. Among these 30 cases, in 19, doctors had prescribed inappropriate antibiotics. In an earlier study, researchers from the same institutions had studied 4,000 prescriptions by doctors…
