With the soaring rates of antibiotic resistance in India, the major question that is floating in different clinical platforms is that "Is India prepared to combat this growing clinical crisis?". What is the present stand and strategy of the country that is homing several deadly resistant pathogens? Probably the first strategic step of India against indiscriminate use of antibiotic being drafted in Kerala by active contributions from health administrators and physicians across the country starting in few days . As a part of global surveillance of antibiotic resistance, it revealed skyrocketing rates of resistance in developing countries, especially in India.
In these countries people are demanding antibiotics for minor infections, and resistance rates among bacteria are soaring high. There is a huge increase in MRSA in India, from 29% of isolates in 2009 to 47% in 2014. Also, the…
