The Patterns Of Use Of Procaine Penicillin Streptomycin Combination in Two Health Centres in Lagos

Abstract

The patterns of use of procaine penicillin-streptomycin was evaluated in the outpatient department of two health centres from June to September 1995. Prescriptions for 84 and 104 patients were written for the antibiotic combination out of total prescriptions of 3429 and 2272 seen at Onikan and Randle Health Centres representing 2.45% (+SE 0.004) respectively. The drug combination was observed to be more for treatment than for prophylaxis: 77.46% (+ SE 0.05) and 69.84% (+ SE 0.05) at Onikan and Randle respectively. The study showed that the use of these drugs is significant at both health centres (P<0.5) hence the importance of its monitoring and evaluation of its efficiency as a cheap alternative broad spectrum antibiotic.

Nigerian Quarterly Journal of Hospital Medicine Vol. 9, No. 1 (1999) pp. 47-49