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Telangana Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare R.V. Karnan being presented with a certificate by the organisers of G-SPARC conference in Hyderabad on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Siddharth Kumar Singh The Telangana government is taking steps to improve Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) across government hospitals, envisaging a greater role for clinical staff and administrative leaders, said Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare R.V. Karnan in Hyderabad on Saturday (October 5).He highlighted the importance of active participation by doctors and facility administrators in IPC efforts and the need for a dedicated IPC budget in the State to ensure smooth implementation of infection control activities.According to World Health Organisation (WHO), IPC is a practical, evidence-based ap...

In Lagos, Nigeria and an infection of suspected drug-resistant sepsis. Like most of the babies in the ward, Ahamba had sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to infection. Many children are born outside of a hospital and limited medical supplies put them at greater risk of getting an infection. Ahamba was given meropenem, one of the strongest antibiotics available, because other drugs had not worked. Babies often do not survive the toll of the treatment. | Photo Credit: TBIJ/BSAC/Damilola Onafuwa/SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, all countries have approved a major new political declaration to radically scale-up efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major threat to modern medicine. AMR threatens to unwind a century of medical progress, and ...

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Greater involvement of doctors, administrators needed in infection prevention and control: Telangana’s Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare

Antimicrobial resistance threatens to wind the clock back to the pre-antibiotic era