Contributed by Siddarth David & Dr. Tamhankar
Antibiotic resistance is a critical public health concern in India
that requires interventions at multiple levels. This is a positive step by the
government to ensure that technological advances, partnerships and strong
research can highlight the issues and solutions to the problem in the Indian
context. This can be used as a tool to push for policy changes to ensure measures
to control the challenge of antibiotic resistance.
Given the need to urgently address the problem of drug
resistance the government of India is planning to develop more research in
drugs and vaccines in the coming months. The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has
planned several programs and global partnerships to give a thrust to this
area. Investment in specific research for a few thousand crores can expected in
the coming months, said the Secretary of DBT K Raghavan.