The Association of Tunisian Pharmacists Warns Against the Use of Antibiotics



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The National Council of Pharmacists of Tunisia on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, has launched a national campaign to streamline the use of antibiotics under the slogan "antibiotic soft dima curating".

For his part, Abdel Rahman bin Suleiman, a member of the National Council of Pharmacists in Tunisia, told Radio Mosayek that Tunisia was the second largest consumer of antibiotics in the world.

He said that 25,000 deaths were recorded due to antibiotic resistance in Europe and microbial resistance worldwide, responsible for 700,000 deaths per year.

He added that if no effective action was undertaken, infectious diseases of bacterial origin could become the cause of death worldwide in 2050, with up to 10 million deaths.

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