Discuss the reasons for rising anti-microbial resistance (AMR) in India and the efforts to control it. Can traditional medicine help in controlling AMR in the country?

AMR is termed as Top 5 global health threat by WHO. AMR is the rising threat misused resistance of bacteria thousand existing antibiotics making them useless. Reasons for AMR in India => AB use in medicine => poor prescription of antibiotics => irrational self-prescribing via out-course => use of antibiotics as growth promoters in poultry => leakage from pharma industry => Efforts to control => 1. WHO One Health Concept => integration of agriculture, animal and human health => 2. AB stewardship => Responsible prescription => step onwards in diabetes => 3. Strengthening with new path/police education => these have been no new antibiotics since 1980s

— CHEJARLA ASWANI KUMAR · AIR 256