Vietnam is among the most antibiotic-resistant countries in the world

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien warned that antibiotic resistance has become one of the leading threats to health and development. This threat makes people easy to return to the time when there were no antibiotics.

"If this situation continues, the future of antibiotics will become useless and people stand before diseases that have no cure" , Deputy Minister Tien said, multiplying the World Week to raise awareness of antibiotic resistance, November 13.

The World Health Organization (WHO) puts Vietnam in the group of countries with the highest antibiotic resistance rates in the world. IMS Health's 2015 Antibiotic Use Map also shows that Vietnam belongs to a group of countries that use many antibiotics.

Vietnam is in the group of countries with the highest rate of antibiotic resistance in the world.(Photo: Healthdesk).

While many developed countries use 1st generation antibiotics, it is still effective, Vietnam has had to use 3rd and 4th generation antibiotics. More worrisome, our country has appeared some types of resistant bacteria. all kinds of antibiotics.The most common are intestinal gram-negative bacteria.

Since 2009, the number of antibiotics in Vietnam sold to the community has doubled. Up to 88% of urban antibiotics are sold without prescription, in rural areas this rate is up to 91%.

Antibiotic resistance stems from the habit of buying over-the-counter medicines from people. Even doctors use antibiotics unreasonably.

According to a survey of Cho Ray Hospital, about half of antibiotics prescribed by doctors are unreasonable . Many doctors prescribe antibiotics for long-term, non-infectious and non-infectious patients. Most E.coli enteric bacteria, bacteria that cause K. pneumoniae infection, A.baumannii bacteria (cause infection) bacterium hospital) . antibiotic resistance.

Every year, millions of people worldwide die from drug resistance, including 1.4 million children. If resistant, patients must stay in hospital longer and the mortality rate increases in all age groups.

WHO also forecasts that by 2050 the cost of antibiotic resistance worldwide will reach $ 100 trillion and cause about 10 million deaths each year. The economic consequences of antimicrobial resistance are thought to be as heavy as the financial crisis.

In Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has established a technical team to supervise drug resistance in 2017 to 2020. This group is responsible for assessing and monitoring drug resistance status and providing solutions to prevent the increase of drug resistance of Common pathogenic bacteria.