Over 3 million children died in 2022 due to drug resistance: Study | Health News

The deaths are linked to antimicrobial resistance infections due to overuse or misuse of some medications.

More than three million children, many of them from Southeast Asia and Africa, are believed to have lost their lives in 2022 due to infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a new research.

“The study underscores the urgent need for both regional and global strategies to combat pediatric AMR,” the report released in Austria on Sunday said, referring to antimicrobial…