Malaysian Medical Resources
13,979 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 7): Malaysia’s out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare spending more than tripled from RM7.14 billion in 2006 to RM23.15 billion in 2020, with 43% of OOP spending last year going to outpatient services.Health news portal…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia achieved a significant milestone in Covid-19 vaccination after 90% of adolescents received at least one dose of the vaccine, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6): The Ministry of Health (MOH) will readjust the purchase of the antiviral drug Molnupiravir as well as the need for the purchase of drugs for Covid-19 treatment based on the RM172 million allocation provided…
Former deputy health minister Dr Lee Boon Chye says waiting time to get houseman posting now stretched from six to 12 months.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Malaysia’s new Covid-19 infections dropped to 4,896 today as compared to 5,551 cases yesterday. Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this brings the cumulative number of Covid-19 case…
KUALA LUMPUR: Allowing private hospitals train their own specialists could benefit hundreds of medical officers who are waiting for contracts or permanent jobs.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has urged the government to address the manpower shortage in the healthcare system by resolving the predicament faced by contract doctors.
KUALA LUMPUR: ‘If the Dying Could Speak’ - Malaysia’s first e-book on Covid-19, has been made available online today by E-Sentral bookstore. The e-boo...
PETALING JAYA: Travellers from other countries - aside from the eight subjected to temporary travel restrictions - are allowed to join the Langkawi travel bubble.
KUALA LUMPUR: These days, Mr Khasmani Samat does not kill every mosquito that lands on him. If they are the aegypti species of mosquito, the 76-year-old pensioner chooses to gently blow them aw
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — With the Omicron variant of concern finally reaching Malaysia, many may be losing their heads over the latest mutation of the Covid-19 disease. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today a…
This follows the discovery of the first Omicron variant in the country.
PETALING JAYA: A foreign student in Ipoh, Perak, who had been vaccinated against Covid-19, became the first in the country to be an identified case of...
The pharmaceutical company says it delivered 12 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine ahead of schedule.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 2): Malaysia currently has 459 psychiatrists, and would ideally need to add 261 such specialists in four more years amid sharper focus on people’s mental health and wellbeing. Based on the Health Ministry’s late…
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad told the Dewan Rakyat this morning that the quota system for medical studies at public universities remains the best way to control the number of medical wo…
Dr Adeeba questions if the holiday is truly necessary.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Malaysia has reported an additional 49 more deaths due to Covid-19 as of 11.59pm yesterday, including 12 who were brought-in-dead. This brings the total number of Covid-19 deaths recorded in the country so f…
Govt guidelines encourage testing before attending birthdays and weddings.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 1): Malaysia has successfully reduced the number of new HIV cases to 3,146 in 2020, or 9.31 cases per 100,000 population, through various prevention, control, treatment and care efforts implemented by the govern…
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 1): Telemedicine provider DOC2US and its Myanmar joint venture (JV) HOPE TeleCare Myanmar have bagged the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) 2021 award in the health technology (healthtech)…
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 — Malaysians must maintain measures to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection while researchers assess the dangers of the new Omicron variant, said Health...