World Health Organization (WHO) warned, drug resistance is partly fueled by irrational use of antibiotics has killed hundreds of thousands of people every year. Therefore, the necessary treatment immediately to resolve the issue.
"We really see the evolution of rapidly increasing in the spread of this problem and the point is faster than solving the problem," said WHO's assistant director general Keiji Fukuda, Thursday (07/04/2011).
Health experts noted, few saj anegara who has a plan to handle the problem of drug resistance, which rose on increased consumption of antibiotics.
"In most countries, there is no plan, no budget, no line of accountability for this very serious problem. The surveillance system is weak, the system did not exist in many places," said Mario Raviglione, WHO officials who led the campaign against of tuberculosis. He added that the quality of antibiotics is questionable in some countries. "Optimal dose is not really a trigger mechanism that develop drug resistance. The use of antibiotics is often not feasible, we call it irrational. It allows the creation of resistance to drugs," he explained. In addition, the use of antibiotics in livestock - in order to promote growth and prevent disease and treat sick animals - also contributes to drug resistance. Any microbes that are resistant to the drugs develops in cattle can move on to humans through the food chain.
Because the microbes will always try to be resistant to the drugs, "this problem will never disappear," Fukuda said.
WHO expose the problem of antibiotic use as a major issue in memeringati World Health Day this year. WHO wants all governments, civil society and the pharmaceutical industry copes with a variety of strategies to deal with drug resistance.
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