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May 2012

Health chief warns: Age of safe medicine is ending, says WHO chief

By Tarunkumar Singhal, Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountants
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The world is entering an era where injuries as common as a child’s scratched knee could kill, where patients entering hospital gamble with their lives and where routine operations such as a hip replacement become too dangerous to carry out, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned.

There is a global crisis in antibiotics caused by rapidly evolving resistance among microbes responsible for common infections that threaten to turn them into untreatable diseases, said Margaret Chan, director general of WHO.

She said: “Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. “Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

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