Study on mass distribution of antibiotics worrying: medics
A mother and her newborn in hospital. A new study involving nearly 200,000 children in Tanzania, Malawi and Niger has suggested that antibiotics should be widely distributed on a massive scale as a strategy to cut down deaths of children. There has, however, been a serious backlash from among Tanzanian clinicians about the strategy. PHOTOS|FILE
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However, medical experts in Tanzania and elsewhere around the world are opposed to the findings, saying that mass distribution of the medications could speed up the emergence of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, especially in poor countries.
