India with a population of more than 1.3 billion population faces a grave challenge with increasing misuse of antibiotics, even at this stage of crisis we do not have the policy to monitor and control the matters. As it helped antibiotics have saved millions of lives but their misuse and overuse are making them less effective as bacteria develop resistance. Despite scientists’ warnings, antibiotic prescriptions in many countries continue to soar. In countries like India, people will give you antibiotics prophylactically, to prevent infection.
This should only be done in very extreme cases because it’s again spreading resistance. however, it is a good initiate by a ministry of health declared a policy. Health minister said that AMR needs to be addressed comprehensively under "One Health Approach". Signed a 'Delhi Declaration' that pledges to adopt a holistic and collaborative approach…
