Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 18: The Department of Pharmacology, GMC Jammu initiated National Point Prevalence Survey (PPS) under National Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Containment in collaboration with National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New Delhi at Government Medical College, Jammu today.
Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma, Principal & Dean GMC, Jammu lauded the Department for holding the training on this very important topic. She said that antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health problem, due to rapid spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria and with limited antibiotics available and very few newer antibiotics in the pipeline to treat infections caused by these organisms. She urged the Medical students to learn the art of rational use of Antimicrobials as well asked the organisers to publicise this issue as much as possible in public domain to prevent the self medication and hence Antimicrobial resistance in the society.
The faculty from NCDC, New Delhi Dr Arti Bahl, additional Director and Head Epidemiology Division, and her team provided online technical support for the training. They congratulated the organising team of GMC Jammu for successful conduct of the training and wished for the success of survey.
Dr Seema Gupta, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmacology said that Antimicrobial resistance occurs naturally, but misuse of antibiotics in humans and animals is accelerating the process. She further said her Department is all committed to contribute immensely in the programme and hands on training like these to students will go a longway in their learning of rational use of medicines especially antimicrobials to curb menace of AMR.
Dr Vivek Mahajan, Nodal Officer for the programme at GMC, Jammu gave vote of thanks & said that in recent times growing number of infections – such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea are becoming harder to treat as the antimicrobial used to treat them become less effective that leads to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality. He further informed that the participants of the said training will conduct the survey in various Departments of the GMC, Jammu & Associated Hospital from 19th to 21st April 2022 to collect data on Antimicrobial Consumption in GMC & AH.
More than 200 students were trained for the conduct of PPS that was attended by eminent doctors from GMC Jammu including Dr Vijay Kundal, HoD Medicine, Dr GS Saini, HoD Paediatrics, Dr Sanjeev Gupta HoD Orthopaedics, Dr. Shabnam Choudhary & Dr Vishal R Tandon besides other faculty members from different Departments.
The trainers for this Hands on Training were Dr Kanika Khajuria, Dr Anna & Dr Himani Gupta, Senior Residents of the Department of Pharmacology, GMC Jammu.
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