Antimicrobial resistance will kill 10 million people each year, with a total global GDP loss of 100 TRILLION dollars by 2050. That’s what UK economist, Lord O’Neill, told delegates at a recent health conference hosted by Wired magazine. It’s an exponential disaster already in motion, said O’Neill.
Responding to Lord O’Neill’s interim analysis, Mario Pinca, CEO of Italian health service company, Copma, said: “It is necessary to act on all fronts with determination and innovative solutions, and Europe must act now to tackle antimicrobial resistance”.
Jim O’Neill, famed for coining the term BRICs – for the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China – was appointed by David Cameron, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, to chair a Review on Antimicrobial Resistance. A final report will be presented to Cameron before the summer.
