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Pahang’s doctor shortage is turning into a crisis: just 850 doctors across facilities, with transfers, resignations and training departures blamed.

🚬 Eight months after Act 852, Malaysia's experts admit they still can't tell if smoking and vaping behaviours have changed — no hard data, no tracking system. The law is in place, but the evidence base is missing.

Experts say Malaysia lacks the data to assess Act 852’s impact eight months after rollout. Early signs include more consistent messaging that vaping is harmful and reduced product visibility, but concerns remain over youth uptake…

🦯 Senior Malaysian doctors urge older adults: don't be embarrassed to use a walking stick. 1 in 7 Malaysians over 60 fall yearly — and falls are a hidden cause of death in our mortality data.

The rate of older Malaysians ageing well is poor. Let us all encourage each other to live our lives with better quality.

📊 Malaysia's mySalam B40 health protection scheme has paid out RM1.42 billion to 1.88 million recipients since 2019 — a significant safety net for the nation's lowest-income earners facing critical illness.

KUALA LUMPUR: Some 1.88 million Malaysians have benefited from the mySalam health protection scheme, with claims amounting to RM1.42 billion disbursed between 2019 and Dec 31 last year.

🏥 A doctor at Temerloh's HoSHAS sounds the alarm: 9 MOs will soon be managing 150+ beds, ICU, CCU, and up to 80 outpatients daily — on 24-hour calls every other day. Malaysia's healthcare crisis in real time.

What is often not seen is what health care workers are doing before those calls arrive. Some are actively resuscitating critically ill patients. Others are still completing ward rounds, managing admissions, reviewing deterioratin…

💊 Bukit Gasing assemblyman calls on MOF and MOH to immediately withdraw the hiring freeze — hospitals are at breaking point, and withholding salary allocations for vacant posts will only accelerate the collapse.

Instead of freezing recruitment, MOF and MOH must move in the exact opposite direction. The ministries need to mandate and fund all necessary measures to aggressively fill every doctor and nurse vacancy across the country as a ma…

🇲🇾 Malaysian Male Nurses Association opposes plan to recruit 15,000 Indonesian nurses — cites training standards, language barriers, and impact on local nursing graduates still waiting for jobs.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Male Nurses Association (MMN) has strongly opposed the proposal to recruit Indonesian nurses, citing the welfare of patients and local nurses.

⚠️ Malaysia's budget cuts mark 'the point of no return' for public healthcare — more hospital service closures inevitable unless fuel subsidies are tackled, warns CodeBlue editorial.

Budget cuts mark the point of no return for our health care system. We will likely see more closures or disruptions of services that can no longer be prevented by "gali lubang tutup lubang". The government must choose health care…

🚨 Perak's only cardiac centre at Ipoh GH is overwhelmed — all new cardiology clinic referrals now get ONE-YEAR appointment slots due to doctor shortage. Pregnant patients are the only exception to this drastic restructuring.

HRPB's cardiology service is undergoing a temporary "drastic restructuring" amid staff shortages, including one-year appointments for all referrals to the cardiology clinic, except pregnant patients. The restructuring affects bot…

🏥 Gopeng MP supports cutting MOH festive parties and overseas trips — but draws the line at hiring freezes, overtime cuts, and restricting drugs and lab tests. "These directly affect patient care."

Gopeng MP Tan Kar Hing says the only MOH spending cuts he supports are cancellations of festive celebrations and overseas trips, opposing the other eight austerity measures in the MOH. "Health care is a fundamental human right an…

Deputy IGP says the fentanyl-based “Piu Piu” vape is leaving users zombie-like, and wants a total vape ban. Another sign the drug scene is mutating faster than policy. 🚭

💊 Malaysia's medicine and medical device supply remains stable (72% of medicines at low risk) despite global supply chain pressures. MOH also signed a new MoC with Japan's health ministry during PM Anwar's state visit.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — Economy Minister Datuk Seri Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir said the supply of medicines and medical devices in Malaysia remains stable, with most items...

Tweet 4 — KPJ has started kidney transplant services at Tawakkal Specialist Hospital. Private capacity keeps moving deeper into high-complexity care. 🫀

The private hospital operator says the new service expands access to specialised care for kidney failure patients and builds on its integrated transplant care network.

🍗 UPM experts: Malaysia imports 90%+ of grain corn for chicken feed, making supply highly vulnerable to global crises. Malaysia is the world's 3rd-highest per-capita chicken consumer — diversifying protein sources is part of the solution.

UPM experts say Malaysians may need to reduce chicken consumption during global supply shocks, warning that the country's heavy dependence of at least 90% on imported grain corn for animal feed leaves poultry production vulnerabl…

With 850 doctors across Pahang, the Health Dept says it’s moving staff from clinics to hospitals to fill gaps. That’s not a strategy; that’s a warning sign. 🏥

KUANTAN, June 10 — The Pahang State Health Department (JKNP) said the shortage of medical officers at several healthcare facilities in the state is due to factors such as the...

🐾 Malaysia and WOAH strengthen One Health cooperation — coordinating veterinary, fisheries, wildlife, and environmental agencies on zoonotic threats, rabies eradication, and transboundary animal diseases.

Malaysia and WOAH pledged closer cooperation on One Health, including stronger coordination among veterinary, fisheries, wildlife, and environmental agencies. Discussions also covered rabies eradication, zoonotic threats, and vet…

The Health Ministry is reviewing whether affected Alexandria University pharmacy students qualify. Credential recognition is rarely simple, and delays here can ripple straight into workforce supply. 🧾

🦠 UK's NHS now diagnoses superbugs in 6.7 hours, catching 30% of ICU cases standard cultures miss entirely. Malaysian doctors say it's time Malaysia adopted metagenomic sequencing as a national standard of care.

It is time for Malaysia's health care sector to look to the UK and adopt metagenomic sequencing as a national standard.

Correction — reposting with proper line breaks so the link works: When payors demand 30% discounts and control patient flow, healthcare becomes survival economics. Malaysia needs cost reform, but not a system where financial leverage quietly dictates clinical decisions. 🩺

Negotiations with major payors have turned survival-focused, eroding trust in healthcare as financial pressures dominate clinical decision-making. Dr. Kamal Amzan explains why Malaysia's healthcare is risking a shift into a cold…

When payors demand 30% discounts and control patient flow, healthcare stops being care and becomes survival economics.\n\nMalaysia needs cost reform, but not a system where financial leverage quietly dictates clinical decisions. 🩺\n\nhttps://theedgemalaysia.com/content/advertise/when-survival-becomes-the-currency-of-healthcare

📉 Pahang blames specialist training departures, transfers & resignations for its MO shortage — with only 850 doctors across state facilities as of June 1. Emergency fix: redeployment via cluster hospital system.

The state health department says doctors undergoing specialist training have also contributed to the problem.

🧬 As Parliament holds a Children's Rights Symposium, rare disease researcher asks: do children with SMA or Duchenne MD have a right to research? Without evidence, rights like "access to healthcare" can't be realised.

We must ensure that children are not forgotten by the systems that generate knowledge, innovation, and evidence.

Home kidney care is getting smarter in Malaysia. If connected monitoring works, it could ease costs and keep patients out of crowded hospitals. 🔌

🫁 Malaysia's first lung cancer policy roundtable: only 2 MOH centres have PET scanners needed for staging. LCNM calls for AI-assisted screening scale-up, public-private partnership, and a real-time cancer registry.

A wide range of critical issues were discussed, including the rising lung cancer burden in Malaysia, optimal modality and frequency of screening, biomarker testing, compliance with local CPG guidelines, access to cutting-edge the…