28/10/2024                                                                            
                                    
                                                                            
                                            World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week 18 to 24 November.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.
We all need to help reduce this threat, by exercising hand hygiene and not using antibiotics inappropriately.