Speaking with SBS Hindi, Dr Sharma told that mixing up the medication don’t end well. He warned about the dangers of mixing two different prescribed drugs which in some cases could be fatal.
Dr Sharma talked about My Health Record which continues to have its share of debate. He advised that if one has difficulty with the English language, the patient and family must use an interpreter and use free on-call translation services.
A new report has found 250,000 Australians are hospitalised every year because of adverse reactions to the drugs they have been prescribed to get better. The report found there were a quarter of a million hospital admissions every year because of medicine-related problems with another 400,000 emergency department presentations. Seven out of ten involved adverse reactions from using multiple pharmaceuticals. And half the hospital cases were preventable.
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