The Minister of Public Health and Population, Dr. Qasim Muhammad Bahibah, inaugurated in the temporary capital, Aden, today the activities of the World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, which is implemented by the Therapeutic Medicine Sector of the Ministry of Health.

The week, which lasts until the 24th of this month, includes awareness activities and scientific lectures related to antimicrobials targeting health personnel and the community.

The Minister of Health stressed in his inauguration speech of the week the Ministry of Health’s interest in this vital and important issue, which constitutes one of the biggest dilemmas facing the world.

Noting the necessity of adhering to the standard conditions during medical practices, adhering to them, achieving the comprehensive concept of safe food and water, and taking into account the commitment to prescribing antibiotics when needed, in the amount needed, and completing the full dose.

 He pointed out the importance of strengthening the comprehensive concept to avoid many problems in the health sector, as well as the necessity of rationalizing the use of antibiotics and dispensing them except by prescription.

The Undersecretary of the Therapeutic Medicine Sector, Dr. Shawqi Al-Sharjabi, pointed out a number of effects linking the effectiveness to the citizen’s life and health.

 He pointed out that antibiotics have become dispensed without supervision and indiscriminately, affecting citizens’ lives negatively and leading to many complications, noting the role played by the organizing bodies for the event, which includes an advisory and media program aimed at raising the standard regarding the use of antibiotics.

Director General of the General Department of Quality and Infection Control at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Amin Salman, reviewed a number of steps to enhance awareness work towards one of the ten most dangerous deadly diseases, calling for confronting the challenges and standing up to them in order to reach tangible positive results and seeking to legalize the dispensing of antimicrobial drugs.< /p>

A similar speech was also given at the event by the Director General of Pharmacy at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Muhammad Al-Qasha.

The scientific program for the event, which was attended by the President of the University of Aden, Dr. Al-Khader Nasser Lasur, the Undersecretary of the Primary Health Care Sector, Dr. Ali Ahmed Al-Walidi, the President of the Yemeni Medical Council, Dr. Ali Obaid Al-Salami, and a number of academics, included three lectures, the first by the campaign coordinator, Dr. Anis Mihdhar, on the policies and procedures of the Ministry of Health. And an integrated package of activities for antimicrobial stewardship.

While the second lecture by the Director of Quality Management, Dr. Enas Aklan, discussed antibiotic-resistant microbes, and the third lecture by the Head of the Pharmacology Department at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Aden, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Roshan, addressed the recycling of antibiotics by breaking bacterial resistance