Tunisia is the second country in the world to consume antibiotics

At a press conference on the launch of the national campaign to rationalize the consumption of antibiotics, Al-Vandari said that Tunisia was the first in the world in terms of rapid growth in the consumption rate of Antibiotics in the last 15 years.

In this context, the launch of this campaign to rationalize the use of antibiotics is aimed primarily at increasing awareness of the adverse effects of excessive consumption of antibiotics on the body's immunity.

He pointed out that the non-compliance with the rules on the use of antibiotics and the non-application of the pharmacist's advice resulted in a weakening of the effect of these antibiotics and made the difficulty of treatment and l? occurrence of more serious complications as well as the addition of some minor bacterial diseases that can become dangerous for the inability of these drugs to be treated.

The unnecessary use of antibiotics and their intensive use in humans and animals are factors responsible for the increase of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.The treatment of antibiotics during Viral infections such as colds or flu not affected by antibiotics is one of the causes of resistance to these antibiotics.

The chairman of the National Council of Pharmacists in Tunisia stressed the need to avoid the indiscriminate and excessive use of antibiotics causing the rapid onset of resistance, as well as of Avoid "self-medication", especially with regard to antibiotics.

The spokesman stressed that the world could move towards what he called the era of "post-antibiotics" if the necessary steps were not taken to sensitize Tunisian citizens to the danger of Excessive use of antibiotics can lose their effect and success and become mild bacterial diseases and minor injuries that are easy to treat Seriously after decades, according to his interpretation.

Abdelrahman Ben Sulaiman, a member of the National Council of Pharmacists, said the national campaign to streamline antibiotic consumption was an opportunity to confirm that the increase in antibiotic resistance in Tunisia was a situation that was beginning to raise concerns and required the public mobilization of health authorities, media and citizens.