A report said preparing and implementing national antimicrobial resistance action plans is the first step towards tacking the drug resistance Superbugs can take a whopping 10 million lives a year globally by 2050 if there was no sustained effort to contain antimicrobial resistance, an expert committee set up by the United Nations (UN) warned on Tuesday. According to a report submitted by the Inter-Agency Coordination Group (IACG), set up in March 2017 with experts from different countries as members, alarming levels of resistance have been reported in countries of all income levels on Monday. As a result, common diseases are becoming difficult to treat and lifesaving medical procedures riskier to perform.
Currently, 7,00,000 people die because of drug-resistant diseases globally a year, including 2,30,000 deaths from multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, it said. In high-income countries…
