Indian government adopting western country policy to crub antibiotic resistance

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National Centre for Disease Control Directorate General of Health Services. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India

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National Centre for Disease Control Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
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National Programme on AMR Containment

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health problem. Resistance has emerged even to newer & more potent antimicrobial agents like Carbapenems. The rapid spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics to treat infections caused by these organisms pose a rapidly increasing threat to human health which urgently needs to be tackled if we are to contain the problem and prevent untreatable illness from becoming a reality. India has given due cognizance to the problem of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to tackle this issue, Government of India launched a “National Programme on AMR Containment” during the 12th five-year plan (2012-2017) which is being coordinated by NCDC. The network of labs is being expanded in a phased manner and currently includes 35 state medical college labs in 26 States/UTs.

The main objectives of this programme are
Activities carried out under the programme
AMR Surveillance

National Treatment Guidelines

A common unified National Treatment Guidelines for antimicrobial use in infectious diseases has been released and uploaded on the website at: National Treatment Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Infectious Diseases. It can serve as a guide to all the hospitals to formulate their own guidelines on basis of which physicians will be trained.

Infection Prevention & Control guidelines and surveillance of Healthcare associated infections

“National Guidelines for Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare facilities” have been developed with support from WHO and have been disseminated to various stakeholders and also unloaded on NCDC website at National-Guidelines-for-IPC-in-HCF For surveillance of Healthcare associated infections, sentinel sites under the National Programme on AMR Containment are joining the ICMR-AIIMS Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) surveillance network in a phased manner. For more details on ICMR-AIIMS HAI surveillance network may refer to https://www.haisindia.com

IEC Activities

Material for IEC has been developed and its dissemination is under process. In addition, various IEC activities are conducted/supported round the year including quiz competition in schools, public lectures in academic Institutions and radio programmes, participation in Health fairs etc.

Review meetings, trainings and workshops

The network labs are provided training on WHONET software and onsite support through site visits. All the labs are trained for Micro broth dilution testing for colistin and vancomycin. Annual meetings are conducted to review the working of the network labs under the programme.

Strengthening Laboratory capacity for AMR detection

During onsite visits, the lab capacity is assessed and hand holding is done for strengthening Internal Quality Control and Proficiency testing in these labs. 1% resistant strains are to be submitted every quarter by the sites for confirmation to NCDC. Most labs under the programme are enrolled onto the IAMM EQAS programme. Back