On average, 600,000 Romanians receive antibiotic treatment every day, reveals the latest report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
Romania is in 2nd place in the European Union, after Greece, for the consumption of antibiotics per thousand inhabitants.
On average, 600,000 Romanians receive antibiotic treatment every day, reveals the latest report from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
This fact is reflected in the high level of resistance of some bacteria to such drugs, draws the attention of the president of the Romanian Society of Microbiology, Alexandru Rafila.
Alexandru Rafila: “One of the reasons is related to the irrational use of antibiotics both in patients, a very common example, especially this season, is the treatment of respiratory viruses with antibiotics. This does not improve the patient’s condition, it does not shorten the duration of the disease, on the contrary, can have a negative influence because it generates the emergence of multi-resistant bacteria, and the other component is the possibility of transmission of these multi-resistant bacteria, especially in the intra-hospital environment”.
Lack of measures to combat antibiotic resistance could lead to up to 10 million deaths annually from infections with multidrug-resistant germs at the 2050 level, according to a forecast by the World Health Organization.
