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In observance of this year’s WorlD Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness (AMR) Week, tagged ” SPREAD AWARENESS, STOP RESISTANCE”; SRHIN volunteers held an outreach at the popular Bodija market, in Oyo state Ibadan.
The outreach was conducted to sensitize traders on the dangers of self-drug prescription and the urgent need to abstain as well the importance of seeking a physician’s prescription. The use of antibiotics wrongly has increased its resistance amongst users. The World Health Organizarion calls it ” a slow tsunami that threatens to wipe out a century of medical program”
This year’s AMR awareness week ran from the 18th of November through to the 24th of the same month. The awareness calls on stakeholders, policy makers, health care providers and the general public to be AMR Champions. It also aimed to increased to encourage best practices among the populace in order to overcome further emergence and spread of drug resistant infections.SRHIN followed suit in the awareness as part of her initiative to bring quality health care information and services to all irrespective of financial class, location, gender or other societal stratification that exists.
SRHIN’S Executive Director, Dr. Isaac Olufadewa, the Country Coordinator- Miracle Adesina, Dr. Toluwase Ayorinde (SRHIN Partnership Manager) and Oyo State Coordinator (Esther Opone) led SRHIN Oyo dexterous volunteers ( Agwuncha Chibueze, Agu Sandra, Kazeem Omolara- Nursing Students of University of Ibadan) in conducting blood pressure check-ups on the 210 market women and men. Sanitation, infection prevention and hygiene materials were thereafter distributed to the participants.
