Contributed by Siddarth D & Dr. Tamhankar
Microbiologists from six
major hospitals of the country are scheduled to meet in New Delhi and finalise
the draft of the standard operating procedures (SOPs) to be used by hospitals
to address antibiotic resistance. These six facilities PGI in Chandigarh, JIPMER in Pondicherry,
AIIMS in Delhi, CMC in Vellore, PD Hinduja in Mumbai, and Assam Medical College
in Dibrugarh would develop the draft which would then be implemented in other
health-facilities in the country.
The SOP will include antibiotic
stewardship, methodology regarding defining a case or recording a case will, an
infection control manual and steps to calculate infection rates. It would
outline a systematic defining and managing infection rates through a central software, pool
the data making a national registry. The project is executed by AIIMS, Centres
for Disease Control (USA) and Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). ICMR has
already made four of the facilities: PGI in Chandigarh, JIPMER in Pondicherry,
AIIMS in Delhi, CMC in Vellore as nodal centres for tracking drug resistances a
few years back.
This is a great step forward in
India as the country yet to have a set of SOPs for health-facilities that are
contextual and implementable. The involvement of public and health private hospitals
in developing the guidelines would increase its acceptability in India's fragmented
healthcare system.
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