https://www.scmp.com/rss/511917/feed Dr Kelvin Loh is managing director and chief executive officer of IHH Healthcare. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When I was a young doctor practising medicine in Singapore 25 years ago, an elderly woman who had just undergone successful knee replacement surgery came back to hospital with a wound that was infected by a common skin bacterium. Within mere days she had died because the bacterium turned out to be resistant to every single type of antibiotic we had in our arsenal. She is a patient I still think about today because she reminded me of my grandmother. My grandmother also had knee osteoarthritis... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167228/antibiotic-resistance-pandemic-hidden-killer-must-be-stopped?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167228/antibiotic-resistance-pandemic-hidden-killer-must-be-stopped?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:45:21 +0000