LABORATORY MADE SUPERBUGS – Today India is flooded with thousands of private laboratories may be substandard Laboratory professionals in every place, they are run by unscrupulous ill knowledged people without any recognized qualification, it has become racket to steal many innocent people, Sometimes Doctors get up to 50% commission and many times tests are not done, only the gaps are filled in reports, with the understanding of the doctors. However today many young generation of Doctors rarely do any clinical examination and write diagnostic tests and at the end believe the reports, I wish the young generation of Doctors should use the rationalism in using the tests in culturing bacteriology specimens , ultimately the Doctors loses the reputation, It is most dangerous as many reports created in some private bacteriology laboratories, when they start processing the E.coli from Vaginal, stool cultures from adults and report the Antibiotic sensitivity testing patterns I think this is how the Super bugs created in our society when the laboratory technicians do not know what is pathogenic what is NORMAL FLORA and the Clinicians chose to treat patients with new generation of Cephalosporins and creating SUPERBUGS.
Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology