I was reading some online articles about antimicrobial resistance in Tanzania and I came across this link
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-016-2082-1 whose data struck me, and made me ask myself what is the current situation on this matter? considering the fact, these data were collected back from 2013 to 2015. Just to give you a summary:
78 Staphylococcus aureus tested, 27 (34.6%) were found to be methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Rates of resistance of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli isolates to third-generation cephalosporins were 38.5% (25/65) and 29.3% (12/41) respectively.
Nine of the 23 Salmonella species isolates (39%) were found to be resistant to third-generation cephalosporins.
The resistance rate of gram-negative bacteria to third-generation cephalosporins increased from 26.5% in 2014 to 57.9% in 2015 (p = 0.004)
Question
What are your thoughts concerning the data above?
How serious do you think the situation is right now regarding Antimicrobial Resistance, considering the time factor from when this research took place?
What is its impact on health systems?
Antimicrobial resistance is not only a threat to our heath systems but also a threat to the general economy. Considering the impacts of Antimicrobial resistance; for example the rising cost of treatment, extended time of treatment than the usual, death etc..... All these led to the loss of millions of money in our country and sadly this problem is not given enough attention as it should. This problem is propagated by us, all of us; the care givers, and the general public by improper use of medicines especially antibiotics, also improper diagnostic procedures and irrational prescribing and dispensing of medicine.
Although the government has an AMR national action plan, that addresses the antimicrobial resistance problem and different proposed ways to tackle it, with the government efforts and support together we can prevent the rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance within our country.
Baritazar
Yes it is
That's very true, something big and collective has to be done to address this so that we can be safe...
Indeed
I guess, guess!! the situation will be far better now. I just think of the two options; either we now have super powerful drugs to kill those bugs OR we have grown strong enough to handle them bugs with very little help of the drugs we have. People are healing huku mtaani eti!! They take half dose or they take robo dose and then haooo....... up and running!!
Not a good idea mr.hebalist...
Not a good idea, I can agree. Bt still won't deny the fact that it is the working system as of now
You can not confirm it is working, the tendency to consume incomplete dose can result into drug resistance, it is attributed by poverty and lack of education among citizens but not because it is working. Continual of such practices endangers the society as whole and it should be discouraged through provision of education during dispensing.