Evaluating the Veterinarian Role in One Health Approach at Antimicrobial Resistance Perspectives, Jordan

Bazzi, Randa Ahmad and Alaboudi, Akram and Rácz, Gábor (2021) Evaluating the Veterinarian Role in One Health Approach at Antimicrobial Resistance Perspectives, Jordan. LÉLEKTAN ÉS HADVISELÉS, 3 (2). pp. 21-54. ISSN 2676-9964

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Abstract

Antimicrobials are widely used in human and veterinary medicine around the world for disease control and prevention. Due to inefficient or prolonged antimicrobial treatment, the microbes may become resistant, which will pose public health and socioeconomic threat, as it is transmitted to humans through the environment and food products. To address the potential health of AMR, WHO collaborated with OIE and FOA to implement the Global Action Plan and urged the member countries to develop a national plan, to combat AMR in all aspects. The Ministry of Health in Jordan has conducted the national plan for combatting AMR (2018-2022), in which the MOA and JVA play a critical role as stakeholders for intervening in the plan strategies in the animal health sector. This study aims to evaluate the role of the Jordanian veterinarian’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices in tackling AMR, as well as it will include the registered veterinary pharmaceutical products between 2017-2020. A web-based cross-sectional KAP survey link was distributed to the veterinarian who is registered in the JAV. Reports of the registered pharmaceutical products were obtained from JAV and then categorized into imported and produced drugs. The results were analyzed descriptively and showed that the average knowledge of the participant who had agreed with the statement that refers to the AMR definition was 84%. The majority (95.65%) considered AMR as a challenge for the veterinary sector in Jordan and should be prioritized beside other zoonotic diseases. A 68.70% of the participants believe that the misuse and overuse of antimicrobial by quacks, fraudulent and unauthorized practitioners are the main contributor to the AMR challenge, and the most common practices among them were recommending the customers (farmers, owners, etc..) to practice good animal husbandries (80.00%).To conclude, implementing antimicrobial resistance continual educational program is essential to improve the veterinarian knowledge in all aspects of AMR; to enhance their advisory skills. Also obligating legislations that ensure the veterinarian to prescribe the correct antimicrobials and improving the surveillance system to monitor the antimicrobial consumption in the veterinary field.

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