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WHO seeks to curb menace of drug resistance -Sushmi Dey

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NEW DELHI: World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified antibiotics into different groups based on their therapeutic efficacy and to curb the increasing risk of superbug infections. It has asked member-countries, including India, to adopt the classification in their health systems to cut the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Antibiotics are the most sold drugs segment in India with sales of over Rs 1,000 crore.

The WHO classification specifies which antibiotics to use for the most common and serious infections, which ones should be available at all times, and those that must be used as a last resort. The move is significant as the classification makes it easier for policy-makers and medical professionals to select the right antibiotic and protect the endangered antibiotics.

"Antimicrobial resistance is an invisible pandemic,” said Dr Mariângela Simão, Assistant-Director General for WHO’s Access to Medicines. “We are already starting to see signs of a post-antibiotic era, with the emergence of infections that are untreatable by all classes of antibiotics. We must safeguard these precious last-line antibiotics to ensure we can still treat and prevent serious infections.”

In India, antibiotic resistance has emerged as a major risk undermining many other advances in medicine. This, despite the government and the regulator taking several steps to curb the menace including a national action plan, introduction of red line on packs of high end antibiotics to differentiate them from other drugs, and fixing ‘tolerance limits’ for presence of antibiotics in food items.

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