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Use of antibiotics decreases in Shanghai
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THE use of antibiotics in local big hospitals have dropped from 60 to 70 percent to the current 40 percent for both outpatient and surgery patients after strict measures on antibiotics prescription and use were adopted, however there is still big gap compared with international community and the requirement of World Health Organization, medical experts said yesterday, when the nation’s first microorganism drug-resistance prevention and control commission was established in the city.
Experts from health, agriculture and husbandry all participated in the commission, which will regulate the use the antibiotics on both human and animals, carry our scientific research on drug resistance and speed up the new antibiotics development.
“Drug resistance of antibiotics has imposed strong challenges to clinical practice and intensive care unit and pediatrics are the two departments that suffer the most,” said Dr Ni Yuxing, director of Ruijin Hospital’s clinical microorganism department and head of the new commission. “Due to long-term antibiotics abuse, many bacteria have developed wide drug resistance and the choices of effective antibiotics become more and more limited.”
He said the new commission is the first interdisciplinary facility to conduct antibiotics research and education.
Antibiotics abuse is a global challenge. The use of antibiotics grew by 36 percent in the past decade. The latest figure showed that China used 162,000 tons of antibiotics, half of the total quantity in the world, in 2013, 52 percent for animals and 48 percent for people.
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