A customer examining her recently purchased medical products outside a pharmacy near Bangkok's Victory Monument. The name of the shop is "Doctor Medicine".

Antibiotic abuse killing thousands in Thailand

Tan Hui Yee, Indochina Bureau Chief,
The Striats Times, Singapore,
NOV 12, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT


"To save his life, doctors gave him the strongest antibiotic available. It helped him pull through, but also destroyed his kidneys. The 66-year-old retired marketing director now has to undergo thrice-weekly dialysis for the rest of his life."


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