Dr Imaina Widago is a full-time researcher at the University of South Australia. Recently, she was the lead reseacher on a study of the risk of drug harm in Australian children.
Funded by the Phamaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), the national peak body for Australia's pharmacists, the study was to examine how large and frequent the incidence of medication-related harm was in children across the country, explained Dr Widagdo.
“Every day, nearly a hundred children aged zero to 14 were taken to the ED for Medication Related Harm/MRH,” Dr Widagdo told SBS Indonesian.
She said that almost half of these incidents could have been prevented, given that the causes were things like incorrect dosage and storage that was not securely out of children's reach.
Parents need to carefully store the medicine and read the dosage guidance.Dr Imaina Widagdo Pharmacist, researcher at the University of South Australia
Who can help reduce these incidents and how? Dr Widagdo also shared her next research plan.
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