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India News: Overuse of antibiotics and superbugs could be worsening the Covid-19 pandemic in India, according to an ICMR study across 10 hospitals, including two
More than half of Covid-19 patients who develop a secondary bacterial or fungal infection die in India, said a study by a state-run institute that the Times of India quoted on Friday. Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) studied patients with secondary infections admitted in intensive care units (ICUs) and wards of 10 hospitals between June and August 2020. According to its study, some Covid-19 patients develop a secondary bacterial or fungal infection during or after Covid-19 treatment. Out of the 17,534 patients studied, 3.6% developed a secondary bacterial or fungal infection and the mortality among these patients was 56.7%. The drug-resistant variants of Klebsiella pneumonia, Acinetobacter baumannii and pseudomonas aeruginosa were among the most common bacterial infections.
The numbers in the ICMR study are relatively small: 4% of the 17,000 Covid patients studied had secondary bacterial and fungal infections. But ICMR’s senior scientists Kamini Walia, who led the study, said extrapolating these numbers to the overall Covid-19 hospitalisations shows that lakhs of people must have had a prolonged hospital stay, needing higher doses of antibiotics to stave off hospitalisation-acquired infections that typically develop after 10 days.
Covid-19 mortality across the world is 10%. The sub-group of patients with Covid-19 plus a bacterial or fungal infection, that was part of the ICMR study, had 56.7% deaths.The study also highlighted that many patients needed potent antibiotics as they had superbugs that couldn’t be treated with usual antibiotics. Half of the Covid patients with bacterial infection (52.36%) were given “watch category” antibiotics as per the World Health Organisation; these are meant to be judiciously used for specific types of infecti
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