When The Deputy Minister Of Health Discloses Data About Antimicrobial Resistance That Makes It Shock

Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwono called antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a hidden pandemic. This is because the death rate is quite high and case detection is still limited.

"The data we get is quite surprising. 1.2 million deaths per year in the world are caused by AMR or the use of irrelevant antibiotics," said Dante Saksono Harbuwono after closing the AMR Side Event meeting in Nusa Dua Bali, Wednesday, August 24, quoted from Antara.

Antibiotic resistance due to microbes occurs due to indiscriminate treatment protocols so that the infection in patients gets worse and causes a high mortality rate.

"Most people use antibiotics to prevent germs that aren't necessarily caused by germs," he said.

According to Dante, the incidence of death due to the influence of AMR is generally experienced by a number of tropical countries, including Indonesia and India, which have relatively high infection rates.

However, Dante did not mention how many cases of death due to AMR in Indonesia and India.

"Mapping antibiotic resistance is not as simple as it seems, that this mapping needs several things, one of which is re-evaluation of the number of infections not cured and increasing in several countries," he said.

According to Dante environmental degradation and mutations that occur in germs and parasites, causing bacterial antibiotics to no longer work to cure patients.

"We need rational control of antibiotics. In addition, the concept of One Health, in which infections can come from animals or plants, is also important to approach," he said.