Up to 1 Million deaths in India in 2019 due to antibiotic-resistant superbugs, says Lancet report

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Lakh = 100,000 Crore = 10,000,000

New Delhi: In 2019, between 3 and 10.4 lakh people in India died due to bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a condition in which pathogenic bacteria no longer respond to antibiotics, according to the new Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project. The first analysis of the global burden of AMR, the project is a partnership between the University of Oxford and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

The findings, published Tuesday in The Lancet, also said that over 39 crore deaths caused directly or indirectly by antibiotic-resistant infections are estimated to occur worldwide by 2050.