Few people thought Pte Oleksander Bezverkhny would survive his evacuation to Kyiv’s Feofaniya Hospital. The 27-year-old’s buttocks were torn by shrapnel, and he suffered a serious damage to his abdomen. He had both legs removed.
The already difficult challenge of saving his life became nearly impossible when physicians found that his infections were resistant to standard antibiotics.
The process by which bacteria develop defense mechanisms against antibiotics and other medications, making them useless, is known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Ukraine is by no means the only nation impacted by this problem; in 2021, an AMR infection killed almost 1.4 million people worldwide, and in 2023, there were 66,730 severe antibiotic-resistant illnesses in the UK.
