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Malaysia should phase out UK royal college parallel pathways after the UK's new medical training law — and invest in building local specialist training instead 🏥
With RCSEd now calling the cardiothoracic surgery parallel pathway a "Malaysian qualification", after the UK's new law, Malaysia should start phasing out the parallel pathway. Expand local Master's clinical programmes to private…
8/10 Malaysians can't recognise sight-threatening retinal diseases like AMD or diabetic macular oedema — a new awareness campaign urges early eye screening, especially for diabetics 👁️
As Malaysia moves towards becoming an aged nation, with NCDs such as diabetes continuing to affect many Malaysians, preserving functional independence must be an important public health priority.
PM Anwar: only 'luxurious' hospital project scopes will be cut — not essential services. Treasury's RM3b MOH cut proposal is still facing strong pushback from health groups.
On health spending cuts, PM Anwar Ibrahim says only the "more luxurious" scope of hospital projects will be "reduced slightly". It's unclear if development expenditure is also targeted in the government's austerity drive, besides…
100+ NUMed Malaysia graduates shut out of UK foundation training in 2026. British High Comm calls UK education 'important' — but no solution yet for those left in limbo.
Despite 103 NUMed graduates being stuck in a limbo due to the UK's new medical training law, the British High Commission says the UK will continue to promote UK education in Malaysia because education is an important pillar of th…
Penang is taking no chances — zero hantavirus cases locally, but port and airport screening has been stepped up anyway. Prevention over complacency.
GEORGE TOWN, May 11 — Penang has strengthened health security at its international entry points at both the port and international airport to prevent the spread of hantavirus...
Penang medical tourism hits record: 527,176 foreign patients and RM1.14b revenue in 2025, up 26%. Malaysia Year of Medical Tourism 2026 is off to a strong start. 🏥
GEORGE TOWN, May 11 — Penang recorded strong growth in its medical tourism sector, with foreign patient numbers rising to 527,176 in 2025.State executive councillor for tourism...
Malaysians are getting sick earlier and younger — and the health system's funding is being cut at the same time. NST charts the widening gap between rising disease burden and falling budget. 📉
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s 2040 “aged nation” deadline has run into a RM18 billion fiscal reality check.
Cut waste, not healthcare. MyWatch says Malaysia should raise tobacco tax by 50 sen/stick — generating up to RM6b/year — instead of slashing the RM46.5b MOH budget by 10%. The math works.
At a time when public hospitals are overcrowded, primary care clinics are stretched, medicine costs are rising, and chronic disease burdens are worsening, cutting health spending is economically short-sighted and socially reckles…
Housemen at Hospital Tuanku Jaafar Seremban stuck in limbo for nearly a month — a logbook investigation has left them with no updates, falling behind batchmates, and a mental health toll. ⚕️
Housemen have been stuck in their medical posting at HTJS for nearly a month now. It's taking a toll on the mental health of all housemen in this hospital because not only are we behind our other batchmates, other departments are…
Malaysians are getting sick earlier and younger — and the health system's funding is being cut at the same time. NST charts the widening gap between rising disease burden and falling budget. 📉
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s 2040 “aged nation” deadline has run into a RM18 billion fiscal reality check.
No hantavirus cases in Malaysia — but MOH isn't relaxing. Surveillance stepped up nationwide as the global alert from the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak continues.
CYBERJAYA: The Health Ministry has ramped up surveillance and border controls to prevent a hantavirus outbreak, despite no local cases being reported among Malaysians as of May 10.
Malaysia on full hantavirus alert — zero local cases but border screening is in full swing. 22,367 ships inspected; PCR diagnostics ready. MOH: no room for complacency. 🦠
CYBERJAYA, May 10 — Malaysia is on full alert to face the threat of hantavirus infection, although no cases involving Malaysians have been recorded thus far.Health Minister...
Data centres are eating Malaysia's farmland. With El Niño looming, rice output in key states could drop from 40% to 20%. Food security is now a public health issue. 🌾
KPKM warns that farmland is being converted for data centres and other industrial purposes, raising food security risks. Livestock land shrank 48% since 2017 due to development pressures. Data centre investments reached RM144 bil…
Malaysia's real elder care frontline isn't in nursing homes — it's exhausted families caring alone at home. Policy must support home carers before the system collapses. 👴
Malaysia’s true elder care workforce is found in the home, not institutions. These carers are the real frontline of dependent ageing. Yet policy still treats them as informal extensions of family duty, rather than essential compo…
"More than 70% of GP clinics struggling" — FPMPAM pushes back on MMA's income data. The real crisis isn't doctors' pay; it's whether Malaysia's primary care system can survive. 💊
FPMPAM says MMA's survey about GP clinics appears to refer to clinic business revenue, rather than doctors' personal income, adding that the bigger issue is about the sustainability of Malaysia's community-based primary care syst…
Malaysian junior doctors work 65–85 hours a week. The UK caps at 40. MOH is now issuing a new circular on working hours — will this time be different? 🩺
Dr Dzul says the Health DG will issue a new circular on junior medical officers' working hours, besides stressing compliance with flexi-work guidelines for housemen. Junior doctors in Malaysia work 65 to 85 hours weekly, far high…
Housemen clocking 85 hrs/week — MMA says that's unacceptable. Hospital directors must be held personally accountable for enforcing work hour limits. Patient safety is at stake. ⚕️
The Malaysian Medical Association says hospital directors must ensure the weekly 60 to 62-hour limit for housemen is enforced.
MOH draws the line: 62 hours max per week for housemen. New ministry clarification covers leave, shifts and rest rules — paper limits must now translate to real practice. ⏱️
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry has directed hospitals nationwide to ensure house officers, or junior medical officers, work no more than 60 to 62 hours a week under the government’s flexible working system.
Malaysia's doctors are burning out. MMA says the 85-hr work week crisis can't be fixed with reminders alone — the whole healthcare system needs structural reform. 🏥
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's healthcare system must undergo broader reforms to address excessive working hours and improve conditions for doctors and healthcare workers, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) said.
🇬🇧 British High Comm says UK education is "important" — but that doesn't help the hundreds of NUMed Malaysia grads locked out of NHS training by the UK's new Medical Training Prioritisation Act.
Despite 103 NUMed graduates being stuck in a limbo due to the UK's new medical training law, the British High Commission says the UK will continue to promote UK education in Malaysia because education is an important pillar of th…
🇬🇧 British High Comm says UK education is "important" — but that doesn't help the hundreds of NUMed Malaysia grads locked out of NHS training by the UK's new Medical Training Prioritisation Act.
Despite 103 NUMed graduates being stuck in a limbo due to the UK's new medical training law, the British High Commission says the UK will continue to promote UK education in Malaysia because education is an important pillar of th…
🐕 Sarawak's 4th rabies death of 2026: a Bintulu man dies May 3. The state continues to battle Malaysia's ongoing rabies crisis in Borneo with no end in sight.
KUCHING (May 7): Sarawak recorded one new human rabies case involving a 63-year-old man from Bintulu, who died on May 3, bringing the total number of rabies cases in the state this year to four. In a statement, the Sarawak Health…