ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE- AN ONGOING CATASTROPHE IN INDIAN CONTEXT
The medical sector has seen numerous discoveries, innovation and research in last 100 years from penicillin to Remdesivir & HCQ, all have saved precious human life, but now several researches has highlighted the grim situation of antimicrobial resistance across the globe causing infectious disease at soaring rate. Unchecked and uncontrolled sale and usage of antimicrobials encompassing all sectors be it food production, hospitals etc. has further aggrieved the situation. This has further come to the limelight during ongoing COVID pandemic creating a fear in the mind, of the treatments getting failed owing to the cases of AMR which might bring a new catastrophe instead of curbing the menace of all types of pandemic. This article tries to answer and figure out the problems related to microbial resistance and the initiatives taken by Government of India to control it.