Pharmacists warn antibiotic stocks for respiratory illnesses at 25-year low

IPU president Dermot Twomey said his Cork pharmacy is down to the last two bottles of one type of children’s antibiotic. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

GPs are inundated with demands for antibiotics at a time when pharmacists have warned supplies of some products for respiratory illnesses are at a 25-year low.

According to the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU) president, there is a lack of some essential medicines. Dermot Twomey said his own business was down to the last two bottles of one type of children’s antibiotic.