Stepanov named the main problems in the treatment of COVID

The minister considers that self-medication and the use of antibiotics are the main problems at the beginning of the disease.

There are two main problems in the treatment of the coronavirus in Ukraine, the head of the Ministry of Health, Maxim Stepanov, said on the air of the program People against Ukraine 24 channel.

“We have two problems. The first is non-compliance sometimes in primary care, antibiotics are prescribed on the first day of illness, and the second is self-medication, I constantly appeal to the public not to do this. cases in which dexamethasone is prescribed to each other. On the first and second day on an outpatient basis, I think all the doctors understand, and they all get their hair on end. So you get really bad, it’s unacceptable, “he said.

The minister pointed out that antibiotics are useless in the first days of the disease.

“You shouldn’t use drugs that you don’t need. Yes, you need to control your condition, saturation. As for antibiotics, there is no bacflora in the first days, they affect it exclusively ”, he said.

Keep in mind that coronavirus treatment costs an average of 45,000 per patient.

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