Federal health authorities have warned that antimicrobial resistance in priority bacterial and fungal pathogens could kill more than 262,000 people in Pakistan over the next 25 years.
According to the health authorities, drug-resistant pathogens causing sepsis, ventilator-associated pneumonia, difficult-to-treat urinary infections and drug-resistant tuberculosis were now among Pakistan’s most serious public health threats. Pakistan has become the first country in the World Health Organisation’s Eastern Mediterranean Region to compile a national Priority Pathogen List, a document intended to guide hospitals, laboratories and policymakers on where to focus surveillance, infection prevention and the rational use of antibiotics across the health system.
Pakistan has become the first country in the World Health Organisation’s Eastern Mediterranean Region to compile a national Priority Pathogen List, a document intended to guide hospitals, laboratories and policymakers on where to focus surveillance, infection prevention and the rational use of antibiotics across the health system.
