THE COST OF NEGLIGENCE

1.27

MILLION The number of deaths caused directly by antimicrobial resistance in 2019 across the world, according to The Lancet

10

MILLION The number of deaths per year that the WHO estimates AMR will cause by 2050

73.3

PER CENT of blood infections and 53.1 per cent of UTIs were found to be antibiotic-resistant in a study conducted across 120 ICUs in the country by HAISurveillance India. Of these, 38.1 per cent of blood infection and 27.9 per cent of UTI cases had fatal outcomes within 14 days (HAIs, however, were a risk factor, not a direct cause)