The Health Ministry has launched a new national action plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) amid rising global concern over what experts describe as a “silent pandemic”.
AMR occurs when a microorganism develops a capacity to survive exposure to a medicine designed to stop its growth or kill it, such as antibiotics to treat bacterial infections and antivirals to treat viral infections.
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