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Antimicrobial resistance can even threaten food security: PM Hasina United News of Bangladesh (UNB)
Bangladesh, May 4 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) will not only endanger human, animal and plant health, but also threaten food security and the progress achieved in SDGs. The Covid-19 pandemic is the defining public health crisis of our time that has already taken more than three million lives. However, the impending pandemic, in the form of antimicrobial resistance, will cause even more harm to the global health, she said.
The Prime Minister said this in her pre-recorded video message in the One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (GLG-AMR) as co-chair with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley.
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30 April, 2021 12:00 AM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged the internal community to raise global public awareness in combating the antimicrobial resistance through political commitment and partnership among the member states.
“The world is now witnessing the devastating pandemic of COVID-19. However, antimicrobial resistance may cause even more lethal pandemics in future,” she said while virtually addressing a High-Level Dialogue on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina joined this dialogue as Co-Chair of the Global Leaders Group on AMR for promoting multisectoral collaboration to combat and contain AMR.
Thanking the President of the General Assembly for convening this High-Level Dialogue on AMR, the premier said failure to tackle this hazard in time will result in huge loss of human lives, animals, and plants.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed on the importance of five actions to fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as it is crucial for preventing future pandemics. The Prime Minister put forward the actions at the high-level Interactive Dialogue on AMR through her pre-recorded