<h4 dir="ltr" id="m_3976580799128646333gmail-docs-internal-guid-e4104806-7fff-7f98-693d-b1ab6354382e"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Sale of antibiotics without doctor's  prescription must be stopped, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday during her meeting with  Professor Timothy E Walsh, Director of Biology Department of Ineos Institute of Antimicrobial Research, Oxford University, United Kingdom.</span><br />''</h4><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Prime Minister Hasina said that earlier community clinics in Bangladesh were giving antibiotics  which has been completely stopped. Now, antibiotics are being given through the public hospitals based on the prescription of doctors. <br />''<br />''Professor Timothy Walsh said that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become an epidemic in the world right now, reports the official news agency BSS. He warned that if action is not taken now, it will take a dire turn in future causing millions of deaths across the world. </span><br />