{"id":57084,"date":"2024-11-27T10:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57084"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:27:31","slug":"experts-raise-alarm-on-antimicrobial-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/27\/experts-raise-alarm-on-antimicrobial-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts Raise Alarm on Antimicrobial Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Faith Adama<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medical experts have sounded the alarm on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), describing it as a “silent pandemic” threatening public health, economic stability, and food security worldwide.<\/p>\n

At a workshop in Owerri themed \u201cEducate, Advocate, Act Now,\u201d stakeholders emphasized the urgent need for global action to curb this growing crisis.<\/p>\n

Chukwuemeka Paschal, the convener, highlighted AMR\u2019s devastating impact, warning, \u201cThis silent pandemic undermines modern medicine, leaving even common infections untreatable.<\/p>\n

It threatens healthcare, food security, and environmental sustainability.\u201d He called for unity among stakeholders to “educate, advocate, and act now to safeguard the future.”<\/p>\n

Abujah Racheal, a resource person, painted a grim picture of AMR\u2019s toll, revealing that over 1.27 million deaths annually are directly linked to resistant infections, with 4.95 million deaths associated globally.<\/p>\n

Nigeria faces a rising tide of drug-resistant malaria, tuberculosis, and bacterial infections, leaving healthcare providers increasingly powerless.<\/p>\n

“Imagine losing a child to a once-treatable infection or battling untreatable tuberculosis. These aren’t hypotheticals\u2014they\u2019re today\u2019s reality,\u201d Abujah said.<\/p>\n

She blamed public ignorance and the misuse of antibiotics for worsening the crisis, urging Nigerians to abandon self-medication and antibiotic overuse.<\/p>\n

Ridwan Yahaya, Antimicrobial Stewardship Manager at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), stressed the role of journalism in tackling AMR.<\/p>\n

\u201cApproximately 200,000 Nigerian newborns die yearly from AMR complications. Journalists must advocate, educate, and mobilize action to combat this threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The workshop also explored the role of media in driving behavioral change. Olayinka Umar Farouk of Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria urged journalists to become agents of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cEffective reporting can shape public behavior and foster accountability,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Participants left with a resounding call for collaboration across healthcare, agriculture, education, and media sectors to combat AMR.<\/p>\n

Experts agree: the time to act is now, before this silent killer renders lifesaving medicines obsolete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Faith Adama Medical experts have sounded the alarm on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), describing it as a “silent pandemic” threatening public health, economic stability, and food security worldwide. At a workshop in Owerri themed \u201cEducate, Advocate, Act Now,\u201d stakeholders emphasized the urgent need for global action to curb this growing crisis. Chukwuemeka Paschal, the convener, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57086,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions\/57086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}