As many as 6,327 pharmacists were trained in 11 governorates in 2022 as part of the national strategy to rationalise the use of antibiotics and medicine, the Health Ministry said.
This comes within the framework of increasing the efficiency of the pharmacists working in the public sector to present better services for patients.
The training included the governorates of Cairo, Fayyoum, Beni Suef, Sharqiya, Suez, Giza, Qalubiya, Menoufiya, Alexandria, Kafr el Sheikh and Gharbiya, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said in a statement on Thursday.
The spokesman pointed out to the second stage of the national strategy to rationalise the use of antibiotics which runs for two weeks as of January for the pharmacists working at the hospitals of the Health Ministry.
He asserted the continuous coordination between the Health Ministry, the Supreme Council of University Hospitals and all the bodies concerned with applying the strategy.
He pointed out to boosting the system of detecting the infections with microbes that resist antibiotics via setting microbiology labs and developing the digitising system.
