Hyderabad: With more people who experience antibiotics purchased on counters during the third wave of Covid-19, experts are afraid of increasing antibiotic resistance.
“While antibiotic resistance has increased, lately, many cases are seen where we find it difficult to treat patients because of this problem.
Because antibiotics remain the same for decades, it is difficult to find replacements and we see cases where a patient has been Developing resistance to almost all antibiotics.
In many cases, the patient has repeated the dose of antibiotics after being prescribed by a doctor several times without consultation, “said a doctor from a government-managed chest hospital.
The Association of the President of the Health Reform, Dr.
Mahesh Kumar, said that bacteria developed resistance due to irrational and excessive than high-end antibiotics in bacterial infections, however, the latest research showed an antibiotic ineffective in the treatment of Covid-19, which was a viral infection.
“Who and ICMR drop antibiotics from the treatment protocol for Covid-19 but this is prescribed for each second patient even now,” he said.
The use of azithromycin antibiotics in the home care kit provided by the state government might actually advance this problem, the fear of experts.
“The massive distribution of what is called the ‘Covid-19 home isolation kit’ with antibiotics is contrary to global and national guidelines and pose a long-term health risk to the population by worsening antimicrobial resistance.
We have repeatedly told officials that if the antibiotic distribution is Masif like that is not checked, then it will destroy for decades, “said Dr.
Ranga Reddy Burri, President, Academy of Indian Infection Control.
He said there needs to be a boost for the use of rational antibiotics regardless of the testing of bacterial infections and viruses before giving recipes.
“Also high time to compile ‘the state action plan to contain antimicrobial resistance’ in line with the global action plan,” he added.