The factors are: greed by health professionals to make money from patients through wrong drug prescriptions; poor adherence to prescriptions; high health expenditure; circulation and sale of unapproved and poor quality antimicrobial agents by under-regulated patent medicine vendors and hawkers.
A Consultant Clinical Microbiologist at the Lagos State College of Medicine and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Bamidele Mutiu, blamed health practitioners for contributing to the antibiotic resistance situation in Nigeria. “Every time we come in contact with patients within and outside the hospital, we should tell them they don’t need antibiotics unless it is indicated, backed up by laboratory diagnosis, microbiological evidence and sensitivity testing. I can tell you we, the health workers, are also guilty.
According to him, the pressure on patients to pay often leads to sub-optimal purchase of antimicrobial doses, thereby encouraging microbials to be resistant to available drugs.
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