India, Nov. 26 -- The global threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing public health challenges of our time. In India, this silent pandemic threatens to undermine decades of medical progress as previously treatable bacterial infections increasingly defy conventional antibiotic interventions. From compromising the safety of routine surgical procedures to rendering common infections potentially lethal, AMR poses an unprecedented risk to modern medicine's fundamental capabilities.

The magnitude of this crisis is staggering. Recent estimates show that AMR directly caused 1.27 million deaths globally in 2019 and contributed to an additional 4.95 million deaths, making it a bigger killer than HIV/AIDS or malaria. Ind...