KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association wants the private sector to be accountable for the use of antibiotics too as careless usage had contributed to the rise in antibiotic resistance.
Its president Datuk Dr N.K.S. Tharmaseelan said private hospitals should also be included in the National Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance report, which only monitored public hospitals at present.
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