Antibiotic crisis could "cause millions of deaths" to
May 14, 2015 at 14:32 clock updates BST
The pharmaceutical industry has been invited to set up an Innovation Fund $ 2,000 million (€ 1.3 billion) to develop new antibiotics.
The proposals are guided appointed a review team prepared by the British government by economist Jim O'Neill in a report.
In connection with the Victoria Derbyshire show, Mr O'Neill said antibiotic resistance could prematurely kill 300 million people in the next 35 years.
He added: "You could end up dying of something as simple as a knife cut."
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