Drug stores to get missive on sales over the counter
The state health department is all set to take strong steps to prevent rampant consumption and sale of antibiotics in the state.
The state health department is all set to take strong steps to prevent rampant consumption and sale of antibiotics in the state.
West Bengal is the highest consumer of antibiotics inthe country owing to irrational and rampant prescriptions advising patients to consume these drugs.
The study led by researchers at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Missouri, US, showed a total of 16.29 billion doses of antibiotics were sold in India in 2020
Similarly, sanitizers, masks, Dettol, savlon, etc are showing hiked-up sales.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the world is 'losing its ability' to use critically important antimicrobial medicines.
Understanding how antibiotics work would help outwit resistant bacteria.
Most people do not realise that big pharmaceutical companies all have a veterinary division in which they make hormones and antibiotics for animals raised for food. But the danger to human beings is acute.
The ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar under the aegis of All Indian Network Project on Fish Health and Association…
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