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NDM Superbug: A conspiracy against Indian health tourism
Mon, Aug 30, 2010 15:45:59 IST
"SUPERBUG CONTROVERSY has been hitting the media headlines for past one month. The debate is going on whether it was a conspiracy against Indian health tourism or excessive use of antibiotics. The report published in latest issue of British medical journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases stated that antibiotics have proved so far ineffective in case of a bacterial gene, named New Delhi Metallo-1 or NDM, which was found in patients travelling to south Asia for medical treatment. It has ignited a controversy in Indian medical circles."
The report has stated that NDM is becoming more common in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and is also being imported to Britain and other countries in patients returning after treatment from these countries. The issue has caught the attention of ruling as well as Opposition parties, who have joined hands in describing it as a big conspiracy against Indian health tourism which is growing at a fast pace. D Raja of Communist Party of India has described it a conspiracy of developed countries.
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad quickly described the report as motivated and conspiracy against Indian health tourism. Its naming after New Delhi has raised suspicion about the motives of the authors of the report. Union Health Minister for state Dinesh Diwedi speaking on the issue has stated that it is a global phenomenon and we are concerned about it adding that it is certainly not area or country specific. The director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, V M Katoch has also clarified that there is no basis to all the rumours spread due to the report.
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