KUALA LUMPUR: Government doctors are not over-prescribing medicine. The high government spending for medicine is because the drugs to treat chronic illnesses such as heart diseases, diabetes, high blood pressure are generally expensive, said the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA).
MMA president Datuk Dr N. Arumugam said if government hospitals stopped giving chronic illness medicine free or cheap to patients, this might discourage some patients from taking the medication without them realising this would cause them serious medical complications.
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