{"id":5564,"date":"2016-10-04T15:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2016-10-04T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T09:58:39","slug":"80-bacteria-kashmir-hospitals-resistant-last-resort-antibiotics-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5564","title":{"rendered":"80% bacteria in Kashmir hospitals resistant to last-resort antibiotics: DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong><\/em> Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that Kashmir hospitals have turned into breading grounds for deadly bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics.<br \/>\nRaising alarm President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that even last-resort antibiotics do not work against these deadly microbes<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">.<br \/>\nHospitals in Kashmir have become superbug factories.<br \/>\nAs per 2015 Antibiogram of SKIMS hospital, 80% of bacteria isolated from ICUs were resistant to imipenem which is the last-line antibiotic.<br \/>\nThe most common isolates were E coli, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas and Acinetobacter and they were found to have 100% resistance to ceftriaxone, another high-end antibiotic.<br \/>\nAn increasing trend over the years in the antibiotic-resistant strains was observed in a prospective study at SKIMS.<br \/>\nThe situation in SMHS hospital is horrible as it is flooded with dangerous drug-resistant microbes.<br \/>\nPatients go to hospitals to get well, but instead contract hospital bugs and die.<br \/>\nThese bugs aren\u2019t limited to hospitals, they are out in the community and anyone, even healthy people, can become infected.<br \/>\nLack of infection control measures and poor sanitation in hospitals provide favorable conditions for resistant microorganisms to emerge, spread and persist.<br \/>\nInappropriate and irrational use of antibiotics has helped the microbes to evolve into resistant strains.<br \/>\nWe are kind of back to the era of not having antibiotics.<br \/>\nWith no antibiotics, cancer chemotherapy and simple surgery will become impossible and we are facing a future where cough or cut could kill once again.<br \/>\nIt is estimated that more than 700,000 people die each year worldwide, and if the trend continues, the figure will go to 10 million by 2015.<br \/>\nUnited Nations in its General Assembly last month signed a declaration to fight a war against superbugs that have evaded science\u2019s last remaining defenses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that Kashmir hospitals have turned into breading grounds for deadly bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics. Raising alarm President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that even last-resort antibiotics do not work against these deadly microbes. Hospitals in Kashmir have become superbug factories. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}