Kaifa hal guys? Hope that all of us are in the pink of health. =)
This morning, I was reading through my Berita Harian newspaper, that I found a quite inspiring and mind jolting article for us pharmacists to take a wide-open eye on. It was about the usage of antibiotic by consumers without the prescription from medical doctor.
It was said that there are a few pharmacy outlets nationwide which sell and dispense antibiotics arbitrarily without the doctor's prescription. This opens the door for consumers to use antibiotics though their body system does not need such antibiotics.
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| Ini dari BHOnline. |
According to them (the news), usage of antibiotics without the proper necessity could mould Superbug (mutated bacteria) which eventually make antibiotics defenseless for such bacteria.
From my point of view, the problem arouse when the people started to take care too much of themselves, yet blindly consume drugs which are unknown to them (unless they take all those subjects we are suffering from, then they are knowledgeable). They buy drugs from pharmacy stores without any medical advice, knowing the fact that the right drugs will heal right diseases. This is true to a certain extent, but medical attention should start from diagnosis, shouldn't it?
Ok. We should not make all the blame onto the consumers. We as pharmacists also have responsibility to shoulder. Guide the people to the right prescriptions. New drugs are produced daily and we ought to equip ourselves with the information related to those things. It is the health of people we care for, right? Don't let other people to pinpoint to pharmacists when such cases occur.
We work for Allah. Together we serve the ummah.
-khalas-
footnote : Alert with things around you makes you one step ahead in the mainstream. Or at least along with the mainstream.
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