Summary:
Chandigarh, India (NewsVoir) In the framework of the project PREVENT IT: Risk Management and Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance, Chitkara University hosted a two day international conference "One World, One Health’ at the University Premises.
More than 700 delegates from over 40 Indian and European institutions debated the impact of the One Health approach in eradicating casualties associated with drug-resistant pathogens.
Despite the scarce societal awareness (as reported by a recent article published in the Lancet), superbugs and drug-resistance diseases currently represent the second cause of death worldwide.
The scientific community has unanimously associated the rise of drug-resistant diseases with unstainable human and medical practices.
Present at this global conference were Italian Ambassador H.E.
UgoAstuto - and the Health attaché at the EU Delegation and Dutch Embassy in India, Dr.
Romans Putans, Faculty of European Studies, Head of the Department of International Business and Economics, Riga Stradins University, Latvia, BenoîtSauveroche, First Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to India and Bhutan and Marcel Floor, Counsellor for Health Welfare and Sport, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in India.
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