A wounded soldier in Ukraine was found to have six types of drug-resistant bacteria. International experts consider the situation very serious.
Ukrainian doctors are facing an alarming increase in infections resistant to antimicrobial drugs. This is stated in a new report prepared by international and Ukrainian experts and published by an American institution that deals with the fight against infections in the world, Voice of America reports.
It is worth noting that the situation is so serious that this crisis must be resolved even during war.
The spread of antimicrobial resistance, which occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to the drugs they treat for the diseases they cause, is an “urgent crisis,” according to a report released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). in Ukraine, which “needs to be resolved.”
“Globally, bacterial antimicrobial resistance is believed to cause more deaths than HIV or malaria and is recognized as a major public health threat worldwide,” wrote researchers from the CDC, Ukraine Center for Public Health, World Health Organization, (WHO) and others. institutions.
Studies were conducted in August 2022 in three regional health care institutions and three regional hospitals in Ternopil, Khmelnitsky and Vinnytsia regions.
As CNN recalls, another report published by the CDC in August said that six types of drug-resistant bacteria were found in a wounded military personnel in Ukraine.
A fifty-year-old man who suffered injuries and burns in a car accident was first treated at a medical facility near Dnepr, Ukraine, and then transferred to a hospital in Kyiv. After Ukrainian doctors were unable to control his illness, the man was taken to a US military hospital in Germany, where cultures were collected for observation and then used to identify the bacteria.
The WHO calls antimicrobial resistance “one of the major global threats to public health and development,” and estimates that antimicrobial resistance caused more than one million deaths worldwide in 2019.
We remind you that in August 2022, electronic prescriptions for antibiotics began to be introduced in Ukraine. This is the first step in the fight against antibiotic resistance caused by the irrational use of antibiotics without a prescription.
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