Sifelani Tsiko — A situational analysis report by the Zimbabwe Anti-Microbial Resistance Core Group has revealed shocking abuse of antibiotics in a worrying trend that could see more people in the southern African country dying from such ailments as cuts and grazes, diarrhoea and flu as antibiotics lose their power to fight minor infections.
AMR country coordinator, Dr Sekesai Zinyowera told a public lecture on Anti-Microbial Resistance recently at the University of Zimbabwe -- Institute of Continuing Health (ICHE) that the sale of antibiotics without prescription in private pharmacies was rampant and posed serious public health risks.
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