India superbugs up infant mortality

Drug-resistant bacteria are killing tens of thousands of newborns yearly in India.

In a country where new born death rates are already high due to child malnutrition and other infant related medical complicacies, now the fears have grown further as a new antibiotic resistant infection called a superbug is believed to further raise the death figures among infants.

Medical experts have attributed the outbreak to country’s dismal state of sanitation and uncontrolled use of antibiotics.

Government health facilities in India are not keeping up to the mark. Most of rural poor people flock to government hospitals for cheap treatment due to large scale poverty.

The hospitals lack proper sanitation leading to further spread of infections due to flow of sewage in the country pits, rivers and streams. Munawar Zaman reports from India.

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