14,216 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
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Malaysia’s workplace mental health crisis is no longer a HR issue to paper over with posters and wellness talk. It is now a measurable workplace hazard.
More than half of working Malaysians report high levels of work-related stress. Many of those people are, at this moment, sitting at a desk or standing on a line, doing their jobs and saying nothing.
Malaysia cannot keep calling this a staffing issue when it’s now a patient safety issue. An understaffed cardiology service means delayed diagnoses, delayed procedures, and avoidable deaths. Buildings don’t save lives. Doctors, nurses, and functioning equipment do. ❤️
HSAJB's cardiology department is severely understaffed and overworked, besides not having sufficient beds or angiography machines. Staff at every level are on excessive on-calls or double shifts. Johor has the lowest staffing occ…
Malaysia's DVS flags Salmonella Infantis among top 5 strains in healthy poultry — 90% of broiler, 93% of layer isolates were multidrug-resistant in 2025. 🐔
Salmonella Infantis is now among the top five Salmonella serovars isolated from healthy poultry in Malaysia, says DVS. It also revealed that 90% of broiler chicken and 93% of layer chicken Salmonella isolates were multidrug-resis…
Speaker urges MPs to get regular health screenings after the Kuala Terengganu MP was hospitalised at IJN this week. 🩺
KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Dr Johari Abdul today reminded Members of Parliament to undergo regular health screenings after an MP was hospitalised at the...
A houseman's account: HSAJB's ED handles ~300 patients/day with just 4 ECG machines, no privacy, and failing toilets. 🏥
A houseman claims that HSAJB's emergency department suffers from a lack of facilities like ECG machines, vital sign monitoring, and oxygen ports, besides lack of privacy when attending to patients, unhelpful support staff, and de…
A houseman's account: HSAJB's ED handles ~300 patients/day with just 4 ECG machines, no privacy, and failing toilets. 🏥
A houseman claims that HSAJB's emergency department suffers from a lack of facilities like ECG machines, vital sign monitoring, and oxygen ports, besides lack of privacy when attending to patients, unhelpful support staff, and de…
A Terengganu student was hurt after a broken thermometer spilled mercury in her school lab. Firefighters safely contained and disposed of it. ⚠️
DUNGUN, July 7 — A female student was injured after coming into contact with mercury spilled on a laboratory table at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Bukit Besi here today. Al...
Malaysia's health inflation doubled to 3% in 2025, DOSM says, driven by a 9% jump in insurance costs. 📈
PUTRAJAYA, July 7 — Health inflation in Malaysia increased to three per cent in 2025 from 1.4 per cent the previous year, driven by rising healthcare service costs.Chief...
HTAR Klang surgery is not “under pressure”. It is being described by its own surgical MOs as near collapse. When a major public hospital reaches this point, the problem is no longer workload. It is workforce planning, retention, and political will. 🏥
Malaysia halved new HIV infections through early harm reduction — needle exchange, methadone, testing. Experts say it's a model for tackling rising NCDs too. 🩺
As Malaysia faces the rising burden of NCDs, an ageing population, and increasing health care costs, the lesson from HIV remains clear: preventing harm early is one of the smartest investments a nation can make.
Galen Centre corrects Deputy Women's Minister in Parliament: abortion is NOT illegal in Malaysia — doctors can legally terminate pregnancies under specific conditions. ⚖️
The Galen Centre rebuts the KPWKM deputy minister's claim that abortion and clinics conducting it are illegal. Section 312 of the Penal Code allows termination of pregnancy if continuing pregnancy risks the woman's life or harms…
Bank Negara may bar insurers from rejecting medical claims over undisclosed conditions patients never knew about, Parliament told. 🛡️
KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara is considering introducing a "no look back" policy that would prevent insurers and takaful operators (ITO) from rejecting claims over medical conditions that policyholders unintentionally failed to discl…
Malaysia's dengue cases and deaths are climbing sharply this year, with DENV-3 — dormant since the 1980s — now the dominant strain. MOH is ramping up vector control. 🦟
KUALA LUMPUR: Dengue cases have increased significantly this year, while deaths have risen sharply.
MPs from both sides back a push for Parliament to oversee big budget cuts — after MOH's RM500m opex cut raised questions with no public breakdown. 🏛️
Some government and Opposition MPs back CodeBlue’s proposal for legislative or regulatory reform to require parliamentary approval or oversight in curbing the Executive's power to make large budget cuts, like 1% of a ministry's b…