In the intensive care units of Dhaka's government hospitals, patients are arriving with one illness and, in many cases, acquiring another far more lethal one — bacteria that modern medicine can no longer reliably defeat. Researchers have documented a mortality rate exceeding ninety percent among those who develop confirmed drug-resistant infections, a figure that speaks not only to microbial evolution but to the fragility of healing institutions under strain. Yet the same research carries an uncommon gift: proof that disciplined infection control can reduce deaths by eighty-six percent, remind
Drug-resistant bacteria surge in Bangladesh ICUs, but prevention measures cut deaths 86%
Over 90% of ICU patients who developed confirmed drug-resistant bacterial infections died, with 105 of 198 initially uninfected patients acquiring these bacteria during hospital care.