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WHD/ ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
STORY: WHD / ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
TRT: 1.29
SOURCE: PAHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: MARCH 2011 / FILE
FILE – MAY 2008, SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
1. Med shot, Nurse and woman patient explaining drug use
2. Close up, hands holding drugs
FILE – SEPTEMBER 2010, PARAMARIBO, SURINAME
3. Wide shot, Nurse taking blood sample to a woman
4. Med shot, woman taking anti malaria drug
FILE – MARCH 2011, VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Luis Bavestrello, Director Clinica Reñaca:
“Within the hospitals, especially in large hospitals and in public hospitals, we have very high rates of antimicrobial resistance.”
FILE – FEBRUARY 2009, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
6. Pan right, woman in a hospital bed
FILE – AUGUST 2009, BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
7. Wide shot, baby in hospital intensive care unit
FILE - JULY 2010, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
8. Wide shot, patient in hospital intensive care unit
FILE – MARCH 2011, VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Luis Bavestrello, Director Clinica Reñaca:
“In fact, the antimicrobial drugs traditionally used in critical patients in the intensive care units, are many times not useful to the point that we have to frequently use antimicrobials that have not gone through the current studies of antimicrobials nor have the current requirements, because we are rescuing antimicrobial drugs that were used and that have been stopped being used many years ago because we do not have an alternative.”
FILE – FEBRUARY 2009, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
10. Pan right, hospital waiting area
FILE – MARCH 2009, GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR
11. Med shot, pharmacist explaining drug use to a young patient
12. Close up, hands on drugs
FILE - MARCH 2011, SANTIAGO DE CHILE, CHILE
13. Zoom out, waiting room of a health clinic
14. Tilt down, shelf with antibiotics
World Health Day 2011 is dedicated to antimicrobial resistance, a major threat to patient care and disease control throughout the world. Antimicrobial resistance is a significant obstacle to success in controlling HIV, malaria and tuberculosis—three of the world's leading infectious killers.
This serious problem also makes it more difficult to treat hospital-acquired infections, facilitates the emergence of "super bugs" that are resistant to major antibiotics, and creates the need for new, more expensive and more complex treatments.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Luis Bavestrello, Director Clinica Reñaca:
“Within the hospitals, especially in large hospitals and in public hospitals, we have very high rates of antimicrobial resistance.”
In recent decades, the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance has dramatically accelerated. This situation is related to the increased use of antimicrobials.
An estimated half of the antimicrobials employed are used improperly. They are often prescribed to treat other health problems, which don’t need antimicrobials, the treatment is not completed as indicated or the quality of the medicines is not adequate.
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr. Luis Bavestrello, Director Clinica Reñaca:
“In fact, the antimicrobial drugs traditionally used in critical patients in the intensive care units, are many times not useful to the point that we have to frequently use antimicrobials that have not gone through the current studies of antimicrobials nor have the current requirements, because we are rescuing antimicrobial drugs that were used and that have been stopped being used many years ago because we do not have an alternative.”
World Health Day 2011 seeks to raise awareness of factors that contribute to antimicrobial resistance, to build commitment to common solutions across diseases, and to encourage the implementation of policies and practices that can prevent and contain antimicrobial resistance.
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