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11/02/23 08:51 AM IST

Red Line Campaign

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  • MoHFW launched Red Line awareness campaign on Antimicrobials Resistance, urging people not to use medicines marked with a red vertical line, including antibiotics, without a doctor’s prescription.
About The Campaign
  • The Union health ministry’s Anti-Microbial Resistance awareness campaign urges people not to use medicines marked with a red vertical line, including antibiotics, without a doctor’s prescription.
  • These medicines are called the ‘Medicines with the Red Line’.
  • To check the irrational use of antibiotics, the ‘red line’ will help the users to differentiate them from other drugs.
  • This campaign is aimed at discouraging unnecessary prescription and over-the-counter sale of antibiotics causing drug resistance for several critical diseases including TB, malaria, urinary tract infection and even HIV.
Anti- Microbial Resistance
  • Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is an ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication previously used to treat them. It is also known as antibiotic resistance.
  • The WHO defines antimicrobial resistance as a microorganism’s resistance to an antimicrobial drug that was once able to treat an infection by that microorganism.
  • The resistance to antimicrobials is a natural biological phenomenon.
  • Resistance can appear spontaneously because of random mutations, or by more commonly following gradual buildup over time, and because of misuse of antibiotics or antimicrobials.
Antibiotics
  • Antibiotics are included in Schedule H and H1 of the Drugs Rules, 1945.
  • These drugs have specific caution labeling requirements and are sold only under the prescription of a Registered Medical Practitioner.
  • The supply of a drug specified in Schedule H1 are recorded in a separate register at the time of the supply and such records are maintained for three years and are open for inspection.
  • Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has placed 24 hi-end antimicrobials under schedule H1 by issuing notification.
Source- PIB

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