PRAYAGRAJ: Sale of antibiotics, anti allergy drugs, cough syrups, paracetamol and other fever drugs has risen by 30 percent in Sangam city.
Traders at the wholesale and retail medicine market observed that the sale of medicines has witnessed the rise after the month of May.
The fact was that the sale of Covid-19 medicines had fallen by 80% in the city with the big decline in new covid cases and high recovery rate.
However, after a steep rise in the cases of viral fever, traders in wholesale and retail medicine markets noticed an unprecedented rise in sale of fever medicines like Paracetamol and other antibiotics like Azithromycin, Doxycycline and others.
Prayag Chemist & Druggist Association (Retail) organising secretary Nikhil Malang told TOI, “The sale of medicines has gone up about 30 percent in the past 10 days. He added “Medicine traders in retail business had to place new orders for fever related medicines, anti-allergic and antibiotics when demand for drugs is increasing by every day and more customers lined up to get medicines”.
Malang, however, said that there was adequate stock of medicines required for fever in the drug markets.
Earlier, the sale of medicines witnessed exponentially between April 3 and April 26 whenCovid cases were rising and hit peak, but started declining gradually afterApril 28 as infection spread was controlled and sale of covid related medicinesdeclined up to 70 percent.
Doctors at government hospitals and private nursing homes, meanwhile, asserted that suchfever cases have increased with the monsoon. They claimed “These are notCovid-19 cases, but the usual respiratory that affects people during themonsoon and cause high fever, cold and cough,’’.
In view of the increasing viral fever cases in the districtsacross state, the state health authorities have also come with a surveillanceand awareness program in majority of the districts of UP from September 7 to16, in which health workers will go door-to-door and identify those with feverand Covid-19 symptoms.
