During the past decade the resistance rates for most of
the organisms both in the. health care settings as well as in the community in Sri Lanka have escalated at an alarming rate according to Director General Of Health Services Dr.Palitha Mahipala.
Addressing at the launching of first ever National Guidelines on "correct use of Antibiotics to prevent resistance "introduced in Sri Lanka which jointly launched yesterday (17) at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute in Colombo by World Health Organization (WHO) and Ministry of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Dr.Mahipala stressed that this is especially so for Gram negative organisms causing infections.
The most effective and practical mode of approach to minimize the problem is by having a national policy for the use of Antibiotics in the country he has stated.
As the International Antibiotic resistant awareness week had been announced from 14th to 20 th of November it is important to prevent Antibiotic resistance which is s major problem in Sri Lanka as well through using Antibiotics correctly the local Microbiologists have stated during yesterday's launch
Addressing at the event Minister of Health Dr.Rajitha Senatatne has stated that it's the drug companies that made Antibiotics which can be resistant for infections and after that same companies manufacture drugs that fight against the resistance .
