PM places six proposals before world to stop random use of antibiotics
UNB
26th January, 2021 08:15:51
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged global leaders to promote and ensure rational antimicrobial agents in human health, livestock, fisheries and agricultural sectors as the silently emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR) could endanger all the significant advances of modern medicine. Though the World Health Assembly resolution of 1998 decided to fight against this resistance, we’re far from reaching our goal to prevent this threat. As a result, we need to promote and ensure rational use of antimicrobial agents in human health, livestock, fisheries and agricultural sectors, she said at the inaugural meeting of the One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, held virtually.
Health sector buckles under pandemic
The health sector of Bangladesh faced its most challenging year ever in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic which has brought the entire world to its knee.
After initial inefficiency, mismanagement and indecision, effective measures were taken to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country which was recognised globally while the sector was mired by corruption amid the pandemic that resulted in reshuffle in the Health Ministry as well as resignation of the chief of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
The coronavirus pandemic, corruption and irregularities, reshuffle in the ministry and DGHS, and recognition for successfully facing the pandemic were some incidents of the outgoing year worth mentioning.
Antimicrobials: Handle with care, united to preserve antimicrobials
Antimicrobials: Handle with care, united to preserve antimicrobials
Co-chairs of the Group of Friends of AMR, WHO, UN Foundation, BCUN 17 December 2020
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,
This year, COVID-19 has captured the world s attention, and rightly so.
Antimicrobial resistance doesn’t usually capture headlines in the same way, but it should.
AMR threatens to unwind a century of medical progress, and send us back to the pre-antibiotic era, when routine infections could mean death.
This global threat is the result of systems failing across and between sectors around the world.
It cannot be addressed by one sector or one nation alone.