Decreasing effect of medicines, a big threat to global public health… Anupriya Patel spoke in UNGA meeting

New Delhi : The decreasing effectiveness of medicines in the treatment of diseases is emerging as a global crisis. Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been considered one of the major threats to global public health and development. A high-level meeting was also held on this issue in the United Nations General Assembly, in which India’s Union Minister of State for Health Anupriya Patel said that a strategy will have to be made to deal with the threat of AMR and all countries will have to work together.

What did Anupriya Patel say

Union Minister Anupriya Patel said that due to AMR, treatment of infection becomes difficult and it also makes surgical procedures risky. Overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistance, when bacteria become resistant to the antibiotics used to effectively treat them.

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Repeated use of medicines loses their effect

The Union Minister further said that this makes it difficult to treat some bacterial infections. Health experts also say that nowadays, in every minor and major disease, along with antibiotics, unnecessary medicines are given, which are of no benefit, but with repeated use of those medicines, their effect gets lost.

Union Minister at the United Nations General Assembly meeting

Addressing the United Nations Assembly, the Union Minister said that ‘AMR is a major threat to global public health, undermining decades of progress in modern medicine.’ he/she talked about integration of AMR prevention strategies into various health programmes. In India, since the launch of the National Action Plan in April 2017, there has been continuous work towards tackling AMR.

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Union Minister Anupriya Patel said that hygiene, sanitation and infection control in health facilities have been improved through programs under the Swachh Bharat Mission. India has formulated an antimicrobial stewardship approach aimed at tackling unnecessary antibiotic prescription and the growing AMR threat. The program is designed for resource-limited settings and is being adopted in many hospitals across the country.