Malaysian Medical Resources
13,987 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
The country is leaving other major Asean countries even further behind as the rollout of vaccines gains pace.
The National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) vaccine rollout has highlighted a much-needed revamp of the primary healthcare system in Malaysia, owing mostly to the glaring absence of primary healthcare’s involvement in NIP.…
PETALING JAYA: Pharmacists are facing difficulties operating during the lockdown as they have not been issued an approval letter by the Health Ministry, says the Malaysian Pharmacists Society.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today said that the use of Covid-19 beds in the intensive care unit (ICU) have increased drastically in the last two weeks. In a statement this evenin…
KUALA LUMPUR (June 8): Malaysia's new Covid-19 infections rose to 5,566, following four days of decline, bringing total cases to 627,652.The number of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), meanwhile, hit a record for the 15t…
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the effective reproduction number (R0/Rt) for Covid-19 infections in Malaysia yesterday stood at 0.97, with a 95 per cent confidence interval of…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia needs to vaccinate between 300,000 and 500,000 people a day to achieve herd immunity by year end.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — The Covid-19 vaccination process at the Setia City Convention Centre in Shah Alam, Selangor was slowed down by several senior citizens who wanted to choose the brand of Covid-19 vaccine to be administered t…
After the federal government said OK, state governments and private hospitals realise it is almost impossible to get vaccines, and we have only one PICK.
IPOH, June 7 — Perak police will advise Manjung District Health Office to cancel compounds issued to 29 oil and gas company workers in Kawasan Perindustrian Kampung Acheh in Sitiawan following confusion on purported standard oper…
GEORGE TOWN, June 7 — The Penang state government will no longer try to purchase its own Covid-19 vaccines after it was convinced that vaccine supplies under the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP) will no longer be an…
KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — Malaysia's Covid-19 infections dropped below 6,000 for the first time in weeks, recording 5,271 new cases today. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah tweeted that Selangor is still the st…
We will not be able to reach sufficient rates of Covid-19 vaccination in the population without vaccinating children aged 12-18 years.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 7 — The National Security Council (NSC) has clarified that there is no requirement for the public to update their health status on MySejahtera except under certain circumstances, after several factory workers i…
BE it luck or desperation for normalcy, Malaysia’s race to attain herd immunity against Covid-19 by year end was surprisingly boosted by the government’s decision in late April to exclude the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the N…
The last time the R0 was below 1.0 was on April 7, says health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
KUALA LUMPUR: Only letters from the relevant ministries and agencies are permitted at roadblocks for those in the essential services starting Tuesday (June 8), says Datuk Seri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia reported 6,241 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday (Jun 6) as the number of patients in the intensive care unit hit a record for ...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 6 — There has been an alarming rate of sporadic Covid-19 cases in Malaysia since April 2021 and the public needs to take greater caution once they leave their homes, Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hish…
JUNE 5 ― Dear DG (of Health), I’m a private medical practitioner running three practices here in the Klang valley. When my colleagues and I were informed that our nation is finally going to involve the 7,000 GPs in the nation to…
JOHOR BAHRU (June 5): All those who have registered and been given appointment dates for their AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine jabs at the Persada Johor International Convention Centre (Persada) here, including those who are unwell,…
PETALING JAYA: Infectious diseases expert Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman’s criticism of a nationwide sanitation exercise has received support from top scientists.
KUALA LUMPUR (June 5): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reported another day of over 100 coronavirus-related deaths, with 109 fatalities recorded within the past 24 hours as of noon today, pushing the national death toll to 3,291…
Waste such as disposable plastics, rubber gloves and insulation gowns used by frontliners have shot up.