India's Antibiotic Use Skewed Toward Broad-Spectrum Drugs and Overuse

India uses a lot of antibiotics, but many of them are strong drugs that should only be used for serious infections.

Doctors sometimes give these strong antibiotics before they know exactly what is wrong because the tests to find the cause are slow or missing.

Hospitals also have trouble keeping everything clean, so infections spread more easily.

To fix this, India wants to make hospitals cleaner, give people more vaccines, and improve water and sanitation.

They also want to build better labs so doctors can quickly see what bacteria are causing an illness.

Training doctors and teaching people that antibiotics don't work for colds or flu is also important.

The government has started a big plan to fight antibiotic resistance, but it will take many years to see big changes.

The goal is to let doctors give the right antibiotic to the right patient at the right time, without harming people or making bacteria stronger.