Months before the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned of rising antibiotic-resistant infections, The Lancet revealed a grim trend in India: nearly one million annual cases involved bacteria resistant to carbapenem, a critical last-resort antibiotic, signaling a deepening public health crisis.

Now, the latest WHO report confirms the growing crisis. It shows that in 2023, one in every six bacterial infections globally was resistant to antibiotics—and India is among the biggest contributors to this alarming pattern of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

AMR occurs when bacteria evolve and stop responding to medicines designed to kill them.

This makes common infections harder—and sometimes impossible—to treat. According to the WHO’s Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance (GLASS) repor

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