May 28, 2024
In the Indian Express, “Every year, almost five million people die globally because of anti-microbial resistant (AMR) bacteria, according to a latest Lancet study. In fact, they make up a major part of the estimated 7.7 million deaths globally due to bacterial infections, which are becoming the second largest cause of mortality. ‘In India, in 2019, approximately 10,43,500 deaths were associated with AMR. For too long, AMR has been seen as either not urgent or too difficult to solve. Neither is true. We need immediate action and the tools to do so are widely available. We hope that this September the UN high-level meeting will ensure that there is a global will to act,’ says Prof Ramanan Laxminarayan, senior research scholar at Princeton University and co-author of a new Lancet series on the subject.”
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