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MMA urges the govt to be bold in healthcare reforms — boost funding, improve staffing, and fix systemic inefficiencies. Incremental steps won’t heal a bleeding system 🩺
Bold reforms in healthcare financing, workforce retention, digitalisation and elderly care, adding that health must be viewed as an investment, not an...
MPs should try queuing at govt clinics, waiting months for surgery, & sharing wards before debating healthcare reforms. Only then will they truly understand the rakyat’s pain 💊
In justifying the need to raise doctors' on-call allowance to RM25/hour, MMA tells MPs and ministers to experience the overworked, underfunded, and understaffed public health care system like ordinary citizens without using their…
Private hospitals are urging the govt to include incentives in #Budget2026 to help them expand healthcare access and manage rising costs 💰 A public-private synergy could ease pressure on MOH facilities and boost patient care nationwide.
Association proposes investment tax allowances for private hospitals investing in artificial intelligence, robotics, and health IT infrastructure.
Malaysia is stepping up cardiac care with new facilities at Serdang Hospital, set to be ready by 2027 ❤️ A major boost for heart disease treatment — the nation’s No.1 killer.
Health Ministry adds two invasive cardiology labs at Serdang Heart Centre to address cardiovascular disease, Malaysia’s leading cause of death.
Historic breakthrough in Malaysia 🇲🇾 — doctors successfully repaired a baby’s spina bifida while still in the womb, giving hope to families and marking a medical first for the nation.
Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) has successfully conducted Malaysia’s first intrauterine (fetal) surgery to repair spina bifida, a congenital spinal defect. This pioneering procedure took place on 22 September 2025, marking a sign…
Dialysis demand is surging — MOH stresses prevention, and PD must be championed as the first-line treatment over HD 🩺
Health deputy DG Nor Azimi sounds the alarm on the unstoppable rise of kidney disease in Malaysia, saying public and private sectors can't keep building new dialysis centres. Peritoneal dialysis must be championed as the first-li…
Ex-Health DG slams TPAs for telling docs to push local over general anaesthesia — warns it compromises patient safety ⚠️
Ex-Health DG Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, who is UCSI Healthcare Group chair and a surgeon, tells MediExpress not to "cross the line of the medical profession", as "safety comes first". The TPA ordered hospitals to prioritise local o…
New system for doctors & nurses 🚑 MOH launches P3S online platform to make healthcare staff transfers faster & less painful. Goodbye endless paperwork, hello clicks.
Malaysia’s Health Ministry introduces P3S mutual posting swap system to cut bureaucracy and improve healthcare personnel placement process.
Doctors are speaking up: on-call pay hasn’t kept pace with rising workloads. Fair compensation is overdue ⚖️
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has urged lawmakers to urgently debate long-delayed reforms to doctors’ on-call allowances, war...
Calls grow for govt to extend cancer treatment subsidies to children under 7 — because no family should face financial ruin while fighting for a child’s life 💔
The National Cancer Society of Malaysia says the government currently subsidises treatment only for Malaysian children who go to public schools.
Malaysia just made history: its first scholarly public health article co-written with AI is now published internationally 🤖📚 Read more:
A public health physician at the Institute for Public Health has published Malaysia's first peer-reviewed scientific article, transparently co-written with AI, in an international journal. Dr Kishwen says his work shows AI can be…
Malaysia is studying whether traditional and indigenous medicine should be formally recognised as part of the health system 🌿 This could reshape healthcare access and cultural preservation.
Health Ministry studies recognising indigenous medicine under 2016 Act, with 373 practitioners from 25 communities consulted so far.
Malaysia is set to launch the Senior Citizens Action Plan on Oct 5, aiming to address ageing population challenges with better care, inclusion & support for the elderly 👵👴
🤖 Malaysian scientists are using AI to predict knee osteoarthritis and personalise treatment. Their new tool combines scans and cell data to guide doctors and could transform care for aching knees.
AT first glance, it’s just another outpatient visit. A patient in her late 60s walks in with persistent knee pain; something that she has grown used to over the years. A few scans, a prescription for physiotherapy, and perhaps a…
💰 A think‑tank urges Malaysia to set up a National Health & Social Insurance to fund healthcare and aged care, scrap sugar subsidies and boost doctors’ on‑call allowances.
KUCHING (Sept 27): Putrajaya is urged to finance health and aged care, increase on-call allowances (ETAP) for doctors and dentists, and remove sugar subsidies under Budget 2026. According to the Galen Centre for Health and Social…
🩺 Sarawak’s hospitals are understaffed as burnout and low pay push nurses out. With an ageing population, leaders warn patient care is at risk and call for urgent federal support.
MIRI (Sept 28): Sarawak is confronting a severe nursing shortage that is straining the state’s healthcare system and jeopardising patient care. In observing this, state Transport Minister Dato Sri Lee Kim Shin believed that the s…
Malaysia is making it easier for Malaysian specialists abroad to return home and serve with new MMC guidelines 🚑 A big step to tackle our healthcare brain drain.
The move addresses long-standing barriers faced by many Malaysian-trained doctors abroad whose credentials were previously excluded from the country’s “recognised” list.
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MOH clears the air: Vaccines do NOT cause autism, and paracetamol in pregnancy is SAFE. Science > myths 💉
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 25 — The Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) has dismissed claims circulating in international media linking paracetamol use during pregnancy and childhood...
Malaysian doctor shares eye-opening differences between working in Malaysia and Australia 🌏 Healthcare systems, pay, and work-life balance worlds apart.
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