In one of the hospitals in Lublin, the New Delhi superbug was detected with death. It is resistant to antibiotics and infection can even lead to death. Admission of new patients to the ward was suspended and special precautions were taken.
The dangerous New Delhi bacterium was detected in the nephrology ward of the Independent Public Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin. So far, her presence has been confirmed in one patient. The patient receives appropriate medications, but has not been isolated, said Marta Podgórska, spokeswoman for SPSK4 in Lublin, in an interview with Dziennik Wschodni. The facility also suspended admissions to the ward, but visits were not forbidden.
The New Delhi bacterium is the greatest threat to people with weakened immunity. In this case, it can even lead to death. In patients with normal immunity, it is curable, although it is resistant to all known antibiotics. The infection with the New Delhi bacterium is most common in hospitals.
Irmina Nikiel, director of the Provincial Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Lublin, warns that the New Delhi bacterium is a very serious threat to health and life and that appropriate precautions must be taken. An infected patient should be indisputably separated from other patients. Unfortunately, there is no such possibility in the hospital in Lublin, and instead they use increased disinfection.
New Delhi superbacteria, or Klebsiella pneumoniae NDM, are pneumonia bacilli. It belongs to the group of intestinal bacteria. She is responsible, inter alia, for pneumonia, inflammation of the urinary and digestive systems or meningitis. It often leads to sepsis, which ends in the death of every second patient.