ARE OUR HOSPITALS SAFE ?.       

Dr.Javeed Kakroo

Today the challenge to human life is use and misuse of Antibiotics, it is very difficult to educate the clinicians and stop selling the antibiotics at the counter and there are few dedicated Microbiology laboratories to forecast the matters on drug resistance I wonder is it possible to implement the Antibiotic policy in our country? where many doctors and pharmaceutical companies  thrive on conflict of interest and ignorance . I find when reporting in the laboratory many patients  after 60 years of age is  at greater rusk of attaining  the MDR strains may be in the hospital If we get admitted in the hospital our lives will be hunted by Drug resistance bacteria unless effective infection controls measures and Antibiotic policy is implemented, we all at risk However the Hospitals are not becoming safe places to live in future,,Antibiotic overuse and inappropriate use also bears a heavy responsibility for creating this crisis. While antibiotics are certainly over prescribed in medicine, the largest source of antibiotic exposure is actually via your food. How we  perceive the matter makes the difference. Hospital-Acquired Infections on the Rise

Hospitals have become particularly notorious for spreading lethal infections. In the United States, more than two million people are affected by hospital-acquired infections each year, and anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 people die as a result. The most common hospital-acquired infections include:

Central line-associated bloodstream infections

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections

Surgical site infections after surgery

Clostridium difficile infections

Most of these cases could likely have been easily prevented with better infection control in hospitals—simple things such as doctors and nurses washing their hands between each patient, .NEVER FORGET EVEN A SIMPLE HAND WASHING IN THE HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT CAN REDUCE MUCH ANTICIPATED MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY.

Dr.Javeed Kakroo is a Microbiologist Certified infection control Auditor Kidney Hospital Srinagar [email protected]

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