Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) has claimed that hospitals have turned into breeding grounds for resistant microbes endangering the safety of patients
In a statement, DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan claimedthat SMHS hospital is harboring bugs like Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas,Klebseilla and Escherichia coli which are resistant to all antibiotics.
“Even last-resortantibiotics like carbapenems and colistin do not work against these deadlymicrobes,” he said in the statement.
Giving details based on 2017-18 Antibiogram of SKIMShospital, he claimed that more than 80% of bacteria isolated from intensivecare units were resistant to imipenem which is the last-line antibiotic.
“The most common isolates were gram negative microbes andthey were found to have 100% resistance to ceftriaxone, another high-endantibiotic,” he said
“An increasing trend over the years in theantibiotic-resistant strains was observed in a prospective study at SKIMS,” headded.
Dr Nisar claimed that the bugs aren’t limited to hospitalsbut are out in the community and even healthy person can be infected.
“In hospitalspatients are given antibiotics without appropriate testing to match theirbacterial infection,” Dr Nisar said adding that inappropriate and irrational useof antibiotics has helped the microbes to evolve into resistant strains.