WB announces crackdown on sale of antibiotics without prescription
Kolkata: West Bengal health department has decided to act tough on the rampant sale of antibiotic drugs in retail medicine shops in the state without proper prescription from any registered medical practitioner.
A senior official of the state government said the decision on this count has been taken following several reports and findings which point at increasing growth of multiple drug-resistant bacteria in human bodies.
At the same time, the state health department has decided to work closely with the state animal husbandry department to monitor the rampant use of antibiotic substances in agricultural farms, poultries, hatcheries and pisciculture farms.
“Rampant use of antibiotics has become a vicious circle. Once certain drug-resistant bacteria for a certain level of antibiotics are developed in the human body, people are resorting to stronger dosage to antibiotics. This circle is resulting in the growth of multiple drug-resistant bacteria in human bodies. This is happening because a section of the retail chemists and druggists are selling antibiotic drugs without any sort of prescription. We have now decided to act tough in the matter,” a senior health department official said.
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