Abstract:
The present survey was carried out to “Drug dispensing patterns by drug retailers in Bangladesh”. All data of this survey is collected from 435 pharmacies of 12 thanas of 5 districts by questionnaires method. This survey is carried out for observation of knowledge of drug retailers about actual causes, sign, symptoms & treatment pattern of following diseases are right site upper abdominal pain, fever, diarrhoea & urinary tract infection. For right site upper abdominal pain only 7.6% retailers referred to doctors & 92.4% retailers prescribed drugs to relief pain. For fever 88.9% retailers prescribed antibiotics, 2.1% non antibiotic & 9.0% referred to doctors. For diarrhoea 89.0% retailers prescribed antibiotics, 8.5% non antibiotic & 2.5% referred to doctors. For UTIs 71.8% retailers prescribed antibiotics, 1.4% non antibiotic & 26.8% referred to doctors.
91.0% retailers think that causes of upper site abdominal pain are acidity, 3.4% liver infection & 5.5 %)don’t know about causes of upper site abdominal pain. For fever 39.3% has said fever may occurred by seasonal change, cold, pain, infection, mosquito & 47.8% said causes of fever is virus. Only 4.1% think that a cause of fever is bacteria & 8.7% don’t know about causes of fever. For diarrhoea 93.1% retailers said causes of diarrhoea are food poisoning, water, Cold & 5.1 % said diarrhoea may occurred by bacteria or virus & 1.8% don’t know about causes of diarrhea. For UTI 69.2% retailers assume that causes of UTIs are sexual relation, dirty, menstruation, masturbation & 5.5% said UTIs occurred through bacteria or virus & 25.5% don’t causes of UTIs. For the treatment of upper site abdominal pain 11.7% prescribe single drug, 80.7% prescribe more than one drug & 7.6% referred to doctors. For the treatment of fever prescribe 7.0% single drug, 54.0% prescribe more than one drug & 39.0% referred to doctors. For the treatment of diarrhoea prescribe only 0 .7% single drug, 88.3% prescribe more than one drug & 11.0% referred to doctors. For the treatment of UTIs prescribe 6.9% single drug, 66.9% prescribe more than one drug & 26.2% referred to doctors. Educational qualification of retailers those are involved to prescribe drugs against various diseases 20.7% SSC, 41.4% HSC, 19.1% Degree,5.3% Masters in arts, only 2.3% Paramedical & 1.8% Diploma in Pharmacy & others 8.73%. In conclusion, from the survey it has found that most of the retailers of Bangladesh have not actual knowledge about diseases, their primary causes & treatment.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Pharmacy (M.Pharm) in East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.