Current situation and future trend of antimicrobial drugs consumtion / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

IntroductionAvailability of antimicrobials for customers without prescription is anticipated as one of the factors to accelerate the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens. In countries under economic development, an improvement of socioeconomic status of the population improves consumption of medicines.ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to examine if there are socio-demographic gradients associated with purchasing antimicrobials without prescriptions at retail stores in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.Methods and MaterialsA survey was conducted in among medical doctors and the randomly selected 250 pharmacy stores in Ulaanbaatar city and provinces (aimags). Customers who left from the stores were interviewed outside of the pharmacy and the medicines they bought at the stores were examined. The use of prescriptions and advice in purchasing medicines, instructions given at pharmacy stores, were interviewed and the type of medicines and details of antimicrobials purchased were examined by pharmacists.ResultsWe found that, quite common consumption of antimicrobials drugs specially betta-lactamas antibiotics and were sold without prescription. There are several reason to purchase antibiotics without prescription were several brand name of drugs, takes a lot of time.ConclusionThe purchase of antimicrobials without prescriptions was common across socio-demographic strata in Ulaanbaatar. By considering the increase of retail pharmacies and followed sales of antimicrobials according to the economic development, measures to enforce regulations and promote education to general public and professionals are urgently required.