Deputy health minister calls to rein in antibiotics use to prevent resistance | Malay Mail

Friday, 20 Dec 2019 01:59 PM MYTDeputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye speaks to reporters after officiating the Antimicrobial Conference and Workshop at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang December 20, 2019. ― Picture by Sayuti Zainudin

He said that many cases of AMR were assumed to occur only in hospitals, but studies have shown that it exists in environments outside these facilities. “We have stressed the appropriate use of antibiotics. If it is not a bacterial infection, we do not need antibiotics,” he said. “The crisis of AMR is driven by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, along with the lack of new classes of drugs that can overcome resistance,” he said in his opening speech earlier.

“When E. coli becomes resistant to antibiotics, it can cause serious infections to humans. It is often found in hospital patients,” he explained. He added that immediate action is needed to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics to control the situation from becoming more serious.

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