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Prof Raja Affendi warns IBD in Malaysia is no longer rare or just urban. National incidence has nearly doubled over the past decade, with more rural and semi-urban cases too. Access to GI care is going to matter more. 🧠

IBD is no longer a rare "Western" disease because Malaysia's national IBD incidence has nearly doubled over the past decade. We are now seeing rising IBD cases in rural and semi-urban areas, beyond urban centres and specific gene…

Selangor wants Selgate to do double duty: expand private hospital capacity and recycle profits into ISS, Selangor Saring and other state health programmes. A state-level health financing experiment worth watching. 🏥

RAWANG, May 22 — The construction of a network of hospitals under the Selgate Healthcare (SELGATE) group is a creative strategy based on ‘entrepreneur state’ to strengthen an...

IHH Healthcare brought Malaysia's LungShield to the World Health Assembly — screening 10,000 traffic police for occupational lung disease using a public-private model 🫁

The WHA participation highlights Malaysia’s public-private partnership model for early detection and occupational lung health.

MMC bans fee-splitting: doctors can no longer be pressured by hospitals or insurers to cut their fees as a condition for patient referrals. MMA now wants MOH, BNM, and MyCC to enforce it 💊

MMC has banned fee-splitting practices involving specialists or GPs by arrangements between private hospitals and ITOs or TPAs, amid payers squeezing providers for discounts that force doctors to cut their professional fees to st…

Malaysia's Health Ministry is expanding the scope of treatments at private clinics to empower GPs — more care closer to home, less crowding in hospitals 🏥

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MoH) plans to expand the scope of treatments at private clinics as part of measures to improve existing policies to empower general practitioners (GP).

Malaysia's Health Ministry is expanding the scope of treatments at private clinics to empower GPs — more care closer to home, less crowding in hospitals 🏥

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry (MoH) plans to expand the scope of treatments at private clinics as part of measures to improve existing policies to empower general practitioners (GP).

KPJ says Selangor just did Asia Pacific’s first spinal procedure using minimally invasive cement screws. Private hospitals are still where a lot of procedural innovation gets branded first. 🦴

The minimally invasive procedure reduces tissue disruption and allows quicker recovery compared with conventional open spine operations.

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UK training policy changes DON'T invalidate your Malaysian medical degree. NUMed's Newcastle University hits back at claims Britain "killed Malaysia's international student dreams" — NUMed grads can still apply for UK postgrad training 🎓

Interpreting a workforce allocation policy as a reflection of educational quality conflates two entirely separate issues.

Malaysia's AI lung screening at public clinics has found 724 lung nodules and 73 high-risk cancer cases among 9,174 patients — 26.9% had abnormal chest X-rays. Catching cancer early at the community level 🫁

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…

Malaysia targets 902 public health clinics with integrated lung care by end of 2026 — TB, COPD, lung cancer screening, asthma and AI chest X-ray under one roof. Respiratory health just got a serious upgrade 🫁

Malaysia & Singapore ink a health MOU — aligned Nutri-Grade food labels, cross-border referrals to Johor private hospitals, and Medisave coverage in the works. Bilateral healthcare diplomacy getting serious 🤝

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…

Malaysian private healthcare doesn’t just sell treatment anymore — it increasingly sells speed, reassurance, and escape from public-sector friction. Useful provocation if you’re thinking about why costs keep climbing. 🏥

Malaysian private health care increasingly sells reassurance, status, speed, and separation from public-sector discomfort, while speaking the language of health. The result is not merely rising costs. It is the gradual commercial…

Malaysia-Singapore health ties are getting more operational: NCDs, Nutri-Grade labelling, medtech, and medical tourism in one MOU. Cross-border policy alignment matters more than another photo-op. 🤝

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Singapore are further strengthening their strategic health partnership to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs), coordinate Nutri-Grade food labelling policies and explore opportunities on medical to…

A dengue patient got a Chinese-language monitoring card at a KL clinic. Perkasa objected. Health literacy advocates fired back: diseases don't recognise race — multilingual health info saves lives. Malaysia's hospitals walk a political tightrope 🏥

A contributor who was directly involved in the National Health Literacy Policy drafted by MOH and WHO defends the use of Chinese-language clinic appointment cards to ensure continuity of care. Diseases don't recognise race, relig…

43 Malaysian babies under 5 months died of whooping cough in 2023. MOH's free Tdap jab in pregnancy cuts that risk by up to 93%. Doctors are urging all pregnant mums to get vaccinated — it protects baby from birth 💉

Tdap vaccine has been proven to be safe for both mother and baby, and is widely used around the world, showing no increased risk to pregnancies.

At the World Health Assembly, Dzulkefly: "When health is politicised, worst still weaponised, the most vulnerable pay the highest price." Malaysia pushes for humanitarian access and showcases its "5S" reforms in Geneva 🌍

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has emphasised the importance of guaranteeing unobstructed access to humanitarian aid amidst a progressively unstable geopolitical environment.

At the World Health Assembly, Dzulkefly: "When health is politicised, worst still weaponised, the most vulnerable pay the highest price." Malaysia pushes for humanitarian access and showcases its "5S" reforms in Geneva 🌍

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has emphasised the importance of guaranteeing unobstructed access to humanitarian aid amidst a progressively unstable geopolitical environment.

Malaysia ramps up Ebola surveillance after WHO declared the Congo/Uganda Bundibugyo outbreak a global health emergency. No cases here — but airports and ports are on high alert. Travellers from affected regions: seek care if symptomatic within 21 days 🚨

A 6% SST on foreign patients has not hit Malaysia's healthcare travel sector yet, says Amir Hamzah. Tax changes may hurt perception before they hurt volume. 💼

GEORGE TOWN: The 6% sales and service tax (SST) imposed on foreign patients seeking treatment in Malaysia has not affected the healthcare travel sector, says Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan

Wrong-language card given at a KL clinic; the health dept says counselling was verbal and notes were in BM. Trust can break on admin errors alone. 🏥

The department says the medical officer on duty had provided all necessary verbal explanations and recorded the clinical notes on the card in Bahasa Melayu.

Are nicotine vapes now effectively illegal in Malaysia? MMA wants MOH and Finance Ministry to clarify — the High Court ruling puts liquid nicotine back on the Poisons List, and you can't tax an illegal product 🚭

MMA wants the Health and Finance Ministries to clarify if liquid nicotine remains on the Poisons List, after the High Court struck down its 2023 removal from the list, and if nicotine vapes are now effectively illegal and hence c…

44% of Malaysian nurses have experienced workplace abuse — slapped, punched, nearly strangled. Over 3,000 left for abroad last year. The people keeping hospitals running are quietly breaking 🏥

Behind the smiles on these healthcare workers' faces are stories of exhaustion, abuse and emotional strain rarely spoken about.