Health Challenges of The Decade by WHO- #12 Protecting Medicines

With the starting of a new decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) has come up with a list of 13 health challenges that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. These health challenges have become a major threat to public health and this need to be significantly focussed in order to tackle public health better. 

In the health care industries, protecting lifesaving medicines is as important as giving the right prescriptions. These medicines are of utmost importance and are also proved as beneficial in a medical emergency to save the life of many people.

The United Nations General Assembly has pinned 2020 as “the period of action.” Address and solve the rising global health concerns that are harmful to the health of the public and are also leading to various crises needs some investments and new ways. Nations should ensure proper investment and ensure significant actions should be taken in order to combat these situations.

What the twelfth challenge is about?

Preventing antibiotic resistance is one of the main motives of this decade. The literal meaning of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is when bacteria or viruses become so hard that they can no longer be cured by the usage of antibiotics. The reason for this might be the overdoing of antibiotics, poor hygiene, or the consumption of bad water. As AMR can serve various problems and can also divert to serious health threats, it is important for international authorities to pay heed to funding allocation to such antibiotics and medicines.

Protecting Lifesaving Medicines

WHO warns that “anti-microbial resistance (AMR) threatens to send modern medicine back decades to the pre-antibiotic era when even routine surgeries were hazardous.” The growth of Anti-microbial resistance branches from various elements like improper treatment of various illnesses, poor access to quality and affordable medicines and a deficiency of clean water.

WHO is working on this problem by putting efforts into finding the root causes of it with both national and international authorities while encouraging various researches and scopes of development and prevention of antibiotics.