Kenya should work for a healthcare system that seeks to address the AMR, and traverses the entire continuum from prevention to care. Yet, a health system without effective antibiotics is one where millions of common procedures annually, such as C-sections and hip replacements, become life-threatening, and cancer patients are put at further risk. There are already a range of different data sets available that can help us interrogate antibiotic prescribing and AMR. These include AMR data from our public health microbiology systems, hospital episode statistics, patient level prescribing data, and the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) mortality data. What is missing is a way to effectively integrate this information in a meaningful and secure manner or better tools to analyse that data, and Big Data methodologies can fill that gap.
Source: Standard Digital March 05, 2021 17:56 UTC