Antibiotics are classified as prescription drugs and can only be obtained with the doctor’s prescription. However, 80% of self-medication cases involve purchasing of antibiotics from pharmacy without prescription . Pharmacists dispense antibiotics without prescription due to patients’ demands, therefore, there is a need for stricter implementation of pharmacy law, educating both the pharmacist and the public to address the issue of self-medication . According to Jain et al. (2016), the general understanding of the public is that antibiotics can be used to treat viral infections confirming previous reports on misconceptions regarding the use of antibiotics among patients. A wide gap of understanding between bacterial and viral infections is
