Output of antibiotics and outpatient prescription rate are still surging

The Korea's production of antibiotics in 2002 accounted for 1.625 trillion won from 1,390 items, up 17.2 percent compared with 909.3 billion in 2002 (1,161 items) and the outpatients' antibiotic prescriptions of community clinics rose to 4.04 million cases in May 2002 from 2.16 million cases from the same month of 2002, said a lawmaker during the parliamentary inspection session on the Ministry...