MULTAN:Livestock and Dairy Development Department South Punjab on Thursday observed World Antibiotics Awareness week.
Awareness walk and seminar was organized at Jalalpur Pirwala as per directions of Director Livestock Multan Division Dr Subtain Bhatti.
Deputy Director Livestock said that Livestock Department was committed to play its role in the Global Animal Disease Control Program.
The relentless use of antibiotics poses serious health problems for animals. Resistance to antibiotics in animals poses serious risks to animal health and productivity. As a result, there is a need to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry practice also in poultry.
Deputy Director Livestock Jalalpur Pirwala Dr Jamshid Akhtar said that Antibiotics were any of a large group of chemical substances, as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by various microorganisms and fungi, having the capacity in dilute solutions to inhibit the growth of or to destroy bacteria and other microorganisms, used chiefly in the treatment of infectious diseases in livestock and poultry.
While Antibiotic residue mean a portion of antibiotics that remains in the body after antibiotic use has been discontinued.
At the same time an husbandry practitioner should have knowledge of Antimicrobial resistance that means the ability of bacteria or other microbes to resist the effects of a drug after being exposed to them. This means that the drug, and similar drugs, will no longer work against those bacteria.
Dr Jamshid Akhtar said that giving high doses of antibiotics to treat infections an approach long thought to be the best strategy to “knock out” an infection may actually trigger some bacteria to become resistant.
In simple terms, in the face of a threat to survival, some bacteria put up their best defenses. Other bacteria are naturally resistant to certain antibiotics.