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Misuse of antibiotics a health risk
Belgrade,
7 April 2011
Minister of Health Zoran Stankovic stated today that frequent and inadequate use of antibiotics increases health care risks.
From left: Jelena Obrenovic, Zoran Stankovic and Dorit Nitsan-Kaluski
Speaking at a press conference on the occasion of 7 April, World Health Day, which is this year marked under the slogan “Antimicrobial Resistance: No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow”, Stankovic said that this issue poses a risk to health care at both the local and global levels.
Head of the World Health Organisation Office to Serbia Dorit Nitsan-Kaluski stressed that antimicrobial resistance is a problem that has to be resolved by all health professionals, including pharmacists.
This also includes veterinarians and animal specialists who administer antibiotics to their livestock believing it will help them to grow better.
If uncontrollable use of antibiotics continues, we will also eradicate the good bacteria from our organisms, she warned.
A representative from Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut Public Health Institute Jelena Obrenovic announced that a new rulebook is being drafted to tackle the issue of hospital infections, including the proper use of antibiotics.
Antimicrobial resistance is a consequence of use, and especially of misuse of antimicrobial medications, and it appears when a microorganism mutates or acquires resistance genes.
Resistant microorganisms can be transferred between humans, animals or in the living environment, and the transfer of bacteria or genes, containing the data on resistance, can take place in hospitals, in a community, through the food chain and in the environment.
The number of deaths in Europe has already rocketed to 25,000 annually, while the costs have jumped by €15 billion due to treatments of infections caused by resistant agents.
The latest data affirm that the number of patients infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria is on the rise and that antimicrobial resistance is an immense threat to public health.
Head of the World Health Organisation Office to Serbia Dorit Nitsan-Kaluski stressed that antimicrobial resistance is a problem that has to be resolved by all health professionals, including pharmacists.
This also includes veterinarians and animal specialists who administer antibiotics to their livestock believing it will help them to grow better.
If uncontrollable use of antibiotics continues, we will also eradicate the good bacteria from our organisms, she warned.
A representative from Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut Public Health Institute Jelena Obrenovic announced that a new rulebook is being drafted to tackle the issue of hospital infections, including the proper use of antibiotics.
Antimicrobial resistance is a consequence of use, and especially of misuse of antimicrobial medications, and it appears when a microorganism mutates or acquires resistance genes.
Resistant microorganisms can be transferred between humans, animals or in the living environment, and the transfer of bacteria or genes, containing the data on resistance, can take place in hospitals, in a community, through the food chain and in the environment.
The number of deaths in Europe has already rocketed to 25,000 annually, while the costs have jumped by €15 billion due to treatments of infections caused by resistant agents.
The latest data affirm that the number of patients infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria is on the rise and that antimicrobial resistance is an immense threat to public health.
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