A32News - Antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance is a condition in which the bacteria are no longer immune to be treated with antibiotics.
The condition is triggered by the habit of taking antibiotics inappropriately.
Chairman of the Steering Committee of Antimicrobial Resistance (KPRA) Ministry of Health, dr. Harry Parathon, SpOG said antibiotic resistance makes the patient becomes difficult to recover when infected.
Harry pointed out, there are patients who undergo cesarean section.
However, the stitches was also healed because it was infected with resistant bacteria.
As a result, the suture continues to be an open wound has been stitched despite repeatedly.
"There's no antibiotics that can overcome the bacteria. So yes the use of antibiotics were stopped because it was baseball impervious.
Want a sophisticated operation like no one has any effective resistance that already," said Harry in a discussion Antibiotics Week commemorate World in Jakarta, Tuesday (22/11 / 2016).
Harry said antibiotic resistance caused so much higher medical costs and patients will be longer hospitalized.
For example, caesarean section usually recover within three days, but in patients who have antibiotic resistance could be months hospitalized.
In the end, antibiotic resistance can cause death.
The management of patients who have undergone antibiotic resistance must be done in particular.
"Patients who are isolated because of antibiotic resistance could occur transmission of resistant bacteria to other patients," said Harry.
He said antibiotic resistance will be the biggest problem in the world, including in Indonesia if not overcome together.
In 2013, WHO recorded 700 thousand deaths per year due to antibiotic resistance. 2050, is expected to increase to 10 million deaths per year.
Antibiotic resistance can be caused by excessive use of antibiotics, in both humans and livestock.
Harry warned that only a disease caused by a bacterial infection that may be given antibiotics, but the fact that many diseases are triggered by viruses, but treated antibiotics.
