Each year, antibiotic-resistant neonatal infections result in the deaths of nearly 60,000 newborns. According to the Lancet, antibiotic-resistant neonatal infections caused 1.27 million deaths worldwide in just 2019.
What are these infections? These are the infections where bacteria change over time and eventually develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.
According to a report, India is one of the countries that are worst hit by "antimicrobial resistance". The report also mentions a government report which shows how the things are getting worse by the day.
The report mentioned that some tests were carried out at Kasturba Hospital to find out which antibiotic would be most effective against the five main bacterial pathogens such as E.coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae.