Guidelines for family doctors on the proper use of antibiotics would be “totally useless” if there is no way to monitor their prescriptions, a leading microbiologist has warned a day after the Hong Kong government took further action to reduce overuse of such medication.
Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, who chairs a government expert panel on antimicrobial resistance, said on Tuesday there was a lack of data on how private doctors prescribe antibiotics to treat infections.
“It’...
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