Thursday, March 28, 2024

Over-the-counter drug worry

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A DOCTOR IS hoping for a crackdown on the sale of over-the-counter antibiotics without prescription before it’s too late.

Head of the Infection Control Department at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) Dr Corey Forde said such a practice was a serious problem and a catalyst in the growing resistance to antibiotics.

“The over-counter gaining of antibiotics in absence of a prescription is real; it happens and it shouldn’t,” he said.

Forde was addressing a Barbados Drug Service forum on How To Prevent Antibiotic Resistance at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. (TG)

Please read the full story in today’s Weekend Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

 

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