It is shocking to read the stories about the making of India as a home of bugs by some mentally bankrupt intellectuals of the western countries, who come to India on a tourist visa to see the Taj; however smuggle micro-organisms to conduct researches under the sponsorship from the Companies which make antibiotics for these bugs which is later to be named after some of the Indian cities to earn cheap publicity like the recent propaganda of naming a hospital born bacteria found globally after the nations capital – New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-1 or NDM-1.
However the fact is that the Nation receives more then 100,000 foreign patients (mostly from US, UK and Europe) in a year which makes the countries Medical Tourism sector’s value more than $400 million, which is expected to grow to $3 billion by the year 2012 and it is solely because “Indians have proven our clinical excellence” meeting the very infection control protocol comparable to the National Healthcare Safety Network of Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the US government public health agency.
Will someone answer this simple question – Why the researchers failed to mention the NDM-1 is not the first super-bug to be discovered? The MSRA (Methicllin-resistant-Staphylococcus-Aureus) super-bug which is the most prominent and takes more then 20,000 lives in the US every single year has not been named after any Western Country or City. Similarly the HIV which was identified in the US was not named after any American city?
