Superbugs resistant to antibiotics cause 30 thousand deaths in Europe today, of which 11 thousand in Italy and “our country is among those that suffer the most from the problem with 2 million days of hospitalization every year due to the consequences of antimicrobial resistance, as if all the beds in Friuli Venezia Giulia were dedicated to this problem. The cost? Two billion spent per year on drug-resistant infections.” Massimo Andreoni raised the alarm about this new latent emergency in hospitals and beyondscientific secretary of Simit, the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, in his speech today at the event 'Together against healthcare-related infections', promoted by Simit in the Chamber to raise political awareness of the emergency of 'superbugs' resistant to antibiotics.
“There must be an obligation for the political world to address the topic seriously – Andreoni remarked – I'm thinking of surveillance, clinical attention and giving directives to hospital CEOs to report on what they are doing against hospital infections”. According to Simit, 'ad hoc' interventions are needed with active contrast programs carried out in multidisciplinary teams “which could prevent from 30% to 50%” of infections related to antimicrobial resistance”.
Simit has launched the Resistimit platform. “We often carry out very expensive interventions or important therapies on patients who then die from hospital infections – said Marco Falcone, Simit councilor and project manager – we want to understand what doesn't work in the treatment of these infections, we have new antibiotics and new therapies, today we do the Car-Ts which cost 250 thousand euros but then the patient risks dying from a bacterial infection. Well, maybe we should reflect – he added – whether it is better not to spend 2 thousand on antibiotic therapy”.
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