Nigeria lauds Chennai help in Ebola fight! Bravo Chennai!
Posted on: 31/Oct/2014 4:02:04 PM
Our dear Chennai city has had a small role to play in the global fight against the Ebola epidemic!
Experts from Nigeria, which could successfully control the Ebola outbreak, have acknowledged the role of the Chennai Declaration, an Indian initiative for tackling the challenge of antibiotics resistance in the country, in improving infection control.
It was in this city in August 2012, at the joint meeting of medical societies in India, that the Chennai Declaration emerged as a �roadmap to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance�. It had a role to play in the recent over-the-counter regulations to rationalise the use of antibiotics in the country. This has brought an attitudinal change.
From a complete denial of the problem of antibiotic resistance, hospitals now acknowledging it, and willing to work towards a better scenario.
The Declaration has received recognition in several international academic and political circles, and from nations that once expressed concern over deadly strains of resistant bacteria that could be traced back to India.
More recently, the Chennai Declaration was discussed in the British Parliament, with MP Jane Ellison, who is also the British parliamentary under secretary of health, appreciating the efforts to control antibiotics resistance in India.
The challenge for the Longitude Prize 2014, which carries a 10 million Pounds prize fund, will be to create a cheap, accurate, rapid and easy-to-use point-of-care test kit for bacterial infections, according to the Chennai Declaration website.
