Antibiotics only with prescription
The increasing use of antibiotics to fatten cows needs to stop to control antibiotic resistance, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday at an event at the Directorate General of Drug Administration, marking World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021.
A 2019 study by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) showed that antibiotic drugs have been losing their capacity to kill germs rapidly.
The minister urged medicine sellers not to sell antibiotics without prescriptions.
"If you do this, you will be fined and jailed. The cabinet already has approved the regulation in this regard," said the minister.
"Once it is passed in the parliament,
everything will be controlled as per law," the minister added.
With the theme "Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance", the week is being celebrated from November 18-24 globally.
The minister also said the children will get vaccines at their schools soon.
After the Covid-19 vaccination programme was launched last month, only schoolchildren in Dhaka have been receiving vaccines at specific schools or vaccination centres.
This has been causing hassles in the registrations and consequent vaccination procedures for the students, according to the minister.
Under the vaccination campaign, children aged between 12 and 17 have been receiving Pfizer vaccines.
The campaign will expand to other districts of the country soon, said the minister.
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