Specialist: Limit prescription rights


Story on antibiotic by Loh Fong Fong-Art Chen/The Star. 15 May 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR: Doctors should restrict the unnecessary use of broad spectrum antibiotics.

Limiting their prescription rights is also necessary in view of the increasing bacteria resistance to a wide range of antibiotics, said Universiti Malaya’s de­­partment of medicine Assoc Prof Dr Sa­­sheela Ponnampalavanar, who speciali­ses in infectious diseases.

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