Prasagraj: Antibiotic sales, anti-allergic drugs, cough syrup, paracetamol and other fever drugs have increased by 30 percent in Sangam City after witnessing the increase in the number of people who descend with viral fever and other symptoms.
Wholesalers and Medicine Markets said that drug sales witnessed the increase after May.
Covid-19 drug sales have fallen 80 percent in the city after decreasing new covid cases and high recovery rates.
However, after a steep increase in the case of viral fever, traders at the wholesale and retail medical market pay attention to the increase in drug sales such as paracetamol and other antibiotics such as azithromycin, doxycycline and others.
Then then Shoroag & the drug association (retail) regulates Secretary Nikhil Malang told Tii, “the sale of drugs has risen by around 30 percent in the past few days.” He added: “Drug traders in the retail business must place orders for new medicines, anti-allergic and antibiotic fever when drug demand increases every day and more customers march to get drugs”.
However, Malang said that there was an adequate stock of drugs needed for fever in the drug market.
Previously, the sale of drugs grew exponentially between April 3 and April 26 when Covid cases rose and reached the peak during the second wave but the demand began to decline gradually after April 28 as the spread of controlled infections and sales of covid drugs declined to above 70 percent .
Doctors at the Government Hospital and private nursing homes, meanwhile, confirmed that such fever cases have increased during the rainy season.
They claim, “This is not a Covid-19 case, but u Sual Respiratory diseases that affect people during the rainy season and cause high, cold and cough fever.” Given the increase in virus fever cases in districts throughout the state, state health authorities too Come with the supervision and awareness program in most districts until September 7-16, where health workers will go to the door.
Doors and identify them with symptoms of fever and covid-19.