All of us talk about antibiotic stewardship programs. Restriction of antibiotics to the right indications right choice right duration is the topmost important policy decisions to be taken by a nation in the changing scenario. Emerging re-emerging bugs where we are helpless without the right weapon. Very few new antibiotics coming up to replace the older one and in the competition bugs are winning, we are lagging behind.
In this context, I was reading this article, in the August issue of the international journal of Infectious diseases I think this should be discussed at the national level by experts and a change of policy about antibiotic use in case of one of the commonest indications of antibiotics, Pneumonia in children. Under-five children constitute around 9 percent of our population. Each year at least 3-5 times they get fever and cough. Millennium development goals aimed to…
