Health literacy and the safe use of medicines is the focus of this year's health awareness week held to support culturally and linguistically diverse communities in NSW.
Growing up in Bangladesh, Qanita Ahmed often witnessed friends and relatives sharing medications with each other.
Ms Ahmed was among several key speakers at the launch of Multicultural Health Week, which begins on 7 September and this year aims to support the safe use of medications and reduce hospital admissions related to poor medication management.Multicultural Health Week is funded by the NSW Ministry of Health and coordinated by the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service.
"We do have evidence that people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities are at higher risk of making mistakes with their medicines and that has really serious consequences," she said. Ms Aslani said online misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic had also sparked a growing demand for unproven treatments."People are getting scared and they're thinking they need medication ... but it's a viral infection. Currently, there's no cure for it."
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