Antibiotic abuse can make pneumonia “untreatable in 10 years”- Ukraine’s health minister
Source: Ukraine’s national telethon
Ukraine’s health minister Viktor Liashko has issued a stark warning that widespread misuse of antibiotics could render pneumonia untreatable within the next decade and halt organ transplants in the country.
In his comments for a National telethon, Liashko stressed the importance of using antibiotics only when they are prescribed by a doctor, adding that antibiotics are not “much like candy”.
“Right now, if we continue to be careless with antibiotics and disregard doctors’ recommendations, in just 10 years, organ transplants could come to a standstill because there will be no way to treat complications. Pneumonia could become incurable,” Liashko warned.
He argued the trend could lead to the resurgence of infections that have long been under control.
The Minister admitted that antibiotic resistance is a global problem – things got worse during the COVID-19 pandemic when people improperly used antibiotics to treat viral infections.
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