I'm afraid you're mistaken. Antibiotics are uncontrolled in India, and the country is shot full of antibiotic resistance. It's at epidemic levels, and is a real problem. I don't think it's coming from either hospitals or industrialized farming, both of which are more common here. Last year in India, 58,000 infants died of antibiotic resistant infections.
It's not that simple. No amount of antibiotics will make up for a lack of proper sanitation and nutrition. Antibiotics are basically the only tools available, and it's hard to blame people for resorting to them, given that food and sanitation are hard to fix for an individual.
Although resistant bugs are everywhere here, hospitals have become factories for untreatable “superbugs.” A government program that pays women to have babies in hospitals has in 10 years more than doubled the share of hospital-born babies to 82 percent, but the government did little to increase hospital capacity to deal with the crush. Maternity wards often have two and three women in each bed, allowing infections to spread rapidly.
Besides being desperately crowded, many hospitals are unhygienic, allowing the bugs to flourish. A Unicef survey of 94 district hospitals and health centers in Rajasthan last year found that 70 percent had possibly contaminated water and 78 percent had no soap available at hand-washing sinks, while 67 percent of toilets were unsanitary.
