NATIONAL ANTI-MICROBIAL RESISTANCE HUB, KOLKATA

About: 

• The National Anti-microbial Resistance Hub has been developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in association with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
  
• The AMR hub will aim to identify antibiotics that work best for diseases and frame a policy for antibiotic use that will prevent resistance. It will carry out basic research and have a repository of viral strains that are being collected from all over the country.
  
  
• The Kolkata centre would be the hub for research on antibiotic resistance not only for the country but for the entire South Asia.