India, Nov. 8 -- Medical experts called for adequate legislation and vigilance on the sale of antibiotics over the counters, at the health research conclave of India International Science Festival (IISF) in Kolkata on November 8, 2019.

Easy availability of antibiotics without prescriptions at pharmacies, patients not completing prescribed courses and taking inappropriate pills in inadequate doses spur antibiotic-resistant infections in people, they said.

Every year nearly two million suffered sue to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally; 23,000 even die, Debjit Chakraborty, from the division of epidemiology at NICED, said. Some 40-70 per cent antibiotics prescribed for use in nursing homes were inappropriate - they were effective agai...