The World Health Organisation said many people may die during and after covid-19 Pandemic due to unauthorized use of antibiotics.
Addressing the media today during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing in Abuja, the WHO Country Representative, Dr. Fiona Braka, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased use of antibiotics, which ultimately leads to bacterial resistance that will ultimately increase the burden of diseases and deaths during the pandemic and beyond.
“New antimicrobial resistance data released by WHO shows that globally, a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them. We also know that based on evidence, only a small proportion of COVID-19 patients do need antibiotics to treat subsequent bacterial infections.”
She advised that the choice of antibiotics should be based on the clinical diagnosis, the local epidemiology, and antibiotic susceptibility, as well as the treatment guidelines.
