Mohammad Reza Zaparkandi, Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education:

Mohammad Reza Zaparkandi, Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education:

The culture of correct drug use should become a social responsibility

🔹 Antimicrobial resistance kills about 5 million people in the world every year; Therefore, we must act more seriously to control the misuse of medicines.

Excessive use of antibiotics, including amoxicillin for colds, is one of the cases that need to correct the culture of giving and consuming the drugs.

In addition to production and supply, the pharmaceutical industry must also play its role in the transport chain and the rational consumption of medicines.

🔹 The social responsibility of pharmaceutical companies can be dedicated to promoting the prescription and correct use of drugs and creating incentives for this.

If you want to produce breakthrough drugs like monoclonal antibodies, there must be mechanisms to prevent their excessive use.