20 May 2012
Mumbai’s suffocating crowds, mounting filth, and the rampant abuse of antibiotics are creating deadly bacteria too strong for our medicines
SR Ramachandran, a senior citizen from Mulund, woke up to a pool of blood from a boil on his heel. After a few days of self-treatment, Ramachandran’s wife Shyamala noticed the wound was oozing pus and smelling foul.
The 69-year-old diabetic rushed to his doctor Ramesh Punjani, who scraped out infected tissue, analysed swabs of blackened skin and finally prescribed him some generic antibiotics.
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