Box II.

Challenges of sustaining surveillance network

Only 20 hospitals-Not representative of entire country

Prior antibiotic exposure data difficult to capture

Expansion, coordination and improvement of the diverse elements of surveillance

Continued training support for their staff in order to undertake quality antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and surveillance

Reflection of tertiary care settings and not general community hospitals

Funding to sustain the quality data and molecular data over a long period