Govt: Is it a motivated superbug?

Aug 14, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

The government on Friday said there is a need to check whether there were “ulterior motives” behind the claim that a drug-resistant superbug had been traced to India.
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The reasoning that has been given was that the patients went from India and Pakistan to London. But this has not been m

entioned, whether the patient who was seen in London was tested for it before coming to India. This has not been mentioned.”
A report published in the scientific journal Lancet traces the bug’s origin to India.
Speaking to this newspaper, Dr Punit Kumar, internal medicine consultant with the Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, said: “Resistance to antibiotics in bacteria is a universal phenomenon. To attribute the source of such a bacterium to India is just propaganda by the West as they are losing out on patients to us on account of medical tourism. This gene is found everywhere. How can you claim it originated from India?”
Minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi said there is a need to check whether “ulterior motives” were behind the claim. “I personally feel that some times some things are commercially motivated. So we ought to get into the detail and depth of it. As a country we cannot take anything lying down.” Mr Trivedi objected to the bug being named after New Delhi. “It is like HIV. As far as my information is concerned, the first patient of HIV was in America. Can we say it has originated in America? So, instead of HIV, can we say America NMD or something like that,” Mr Trivedi said.

Comments

With the massive way

Dr. Nancy Malik

14 Aug 2010 - 12:52

With the massive way antibiotics are being prescribed today they have suppressed and in no time going to destroy the immune system. It is going to be open to new diseases that are going to be incurable. Homeopathic medicines for bacterial infections such as Curcuma Longa, Einbelia Ribes, Azardica Indica and Emblica Oficinale are better substitute to antibiotics as they do not disturb or hamper digestive system.

It is pure and simple

bageshwar jhaeader

14 Aug 2010 - 12:42

It is pure and simple propaganda to create impediments in the path of growing Indian medical tourism. Deserves a befitting condemnation.

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