WORLD ANTIMICROBIAL AWARENESS WEEK
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18-24 November every year. The 2021 theme, Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance, calls on One Health stakeholders, policymakers, health care providers, and the general public to be Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) awareness champons. It is the most global events of the UN having included antibiotic resistance as one of the biggest threats to global health. The UN in collaboration with the WHO aims to improve awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance, strengthening evidence based practice through surveillance research and promoting good practices and prudent use of microbial antimicrobials antimicrobials in food, agriculture and medicine. This year the focus is to teach children about basic cleanliness, washing hands frequently, never leaving cuts or wounds open, maintaining a safe distance from infected relatives consumption of healthy balanced diets rich in vitamin C to ward off infections and also cultivating happiness as the risk of infection is subsequently reduced in Happy people.
The department of of Child Health Nursing from pushpagiri College of nursing observed the world antibiotic awareness week by organising a health awareness program through a short role play by BSc nursing 3rd year students of 2018 batch in the Paediatric OPD at 11:00 a.m. on 18th November. Approximately 20 people attended the program following COVID appropriate protocols.
