Antibiotic resistance can kill 3.85 crore people, study reveals shocking facts:

News Topical, Digital Desk : Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, called superbugs, caused by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics are becoming a serious challenge to global health and economic stability. Growing resistance to antibiotics could lead to the death of over 30 million people by 2050, a study by think tank Centre for Global Development has found.

Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat them. This makes some bacterial infections difficult to treat.

Treatment is twice as expensive

The study suggests that antibiotic-resistant bacteria can increase the number of patients admitted to hospital. Treatment of resistant infections is almost twice as expensive as that of infections for which antibiotics are effective. This can increase not only mortality but also the cost of treatment.

Low and middle income countries are more affected

The impact will be particularly pronounced in low- and middle-income countries, where infection rates and reliance on antibiotics are high and access to quality healthcare is limited.

60 percent increase in deaths

A multidimensional approach has been adopted to estimate the economic burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Health burden estimates are taken from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) which suggests that deaths due to AMR are expected to increase by 60 percent by 2050.

According to IHME's health burden projections, if resistance follows post-1990 trends, AMR could cause 38.5 million deaths between 2025 and 2050. The direct health care costs of AMR could rise from $66 billion per year today to $159 billion per year by 2050.

Therefore, it is very important that antibiotics should never be taken without consulting a doctor. It seems that taking antibiotics on your own will not cause any harm, but the things revealed in this study are pointing towards something else. Therefore, it is important that in case of any kind of problem, antibiotics should be taken after consulting a doctor and it is also very important to complete the dose.