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🏥 Patients at Miri Hospital's ED report waits of up to 8 hours, with the green zone sometimes left with just one doctor on duty amid a doctor shortage.
Multiple patients complain about waiting for seven to eight hours at Miri Hospital's emergency department for treatment. A doctor says the green zone is sometimes left with only one medical officer on duty or even occasionally ha…
🩺 2,518 medical officers quit Malaysia's public healthcare service from Jan 2024–June 2026, says Health Minister Dzulkefly — but under 3% left for jobs abroad.
However, just 71, or less than 3%, resigned from the public healthcare service to work abroad.
Put doctor hiring and pay closer to hospitals, says a Selangor rep — proposing local recruitment and allowance-setting to help facilities compete for staff.
With MOH's "absolute autonomy", Bukit Gasing rep Rajiv moots reforming doctor hiring as an open job marketplace by decentralising recruitment and BIW allowance rates to individual hospitals. Hospital directors will be responsible…
JPA has rejected MOH’s request to further relax performance-assessment requirements for 2026/27 subspecialty training — a fresh hurdle in the specialist pipeline.
JPA denies MOH's request to further relax LNPT requirements for 2026/2027 subspecialty training, citing 6 reasons, including injustice against doctors who didn't apply because they followed the rules. Facilities in public service…
Type 2 diabetes is now being detected in Malaysian children as young as 14. The Health Minister calls it a worrying sign that NCDs are reaching younger people.
Health minister says the 'worrying' trend reflects a rise in NCDs among younger people.
Medicine prices may rise as MOH warns active-ingredient costs are climbing — squeezing local generic manufacturers and potentially lifting private treatment bills.
MOH warns rising API costs could push up medicine prices and private treatment costs, while squeezing local generic drugmakers and distributors. The government’s drug may also come under pressure.
MOH says 78% of its 2025 medicine spend went to generics — RM3.01b of RM3.86b — directly rebutting Pharmaniaga’s claim that branded drugs dominated.
MOH refutes Pharmaniaga's claim that the government spent more on originators than generics in 2025, clarifying that MOH spent RM3 billion on generics, comprising 78% of its RM3.86 billion drug budget, while RM850 million (22%) w…
Malaysia’s public doctor workforce has shrunk for the first time in a decade — down 1,546 in 2024. MOH lost 1,444 doctors, largely MOs and specialists.
Malaysia’s doctor workforce in the public sector declined in 2024 for the first time since 2014. In an historic contraction, MOH lost 1,444 doctors in 2024 (mostly medical officers and specialists), after over 1,100 MOs rejected…
Poultry producer SLH says it will keep vaccination despite higher costs: prevention costs less than an outbreak. Experts warn scaling back core vaccines could reverse herd-immunity gains.
Despite rising production costs, poultry producer SLH says vaccination remains one of the last areas it will cut because disease prevention costs less than outbreaks. An expert warns that reducing core vaccination could undo year…
Medical officers can now claim relocation allowance when transferred into permanent posts. But in the first group, 19 of 39 doctors posted to Sabah did not report for duty.
Dr Dzul says medical officers are now eligible to claim for transfers for permanent positions, starting last June 22. But in the first batch receiving this new benefit, half of those posted to Sabah (19 of 39 doctors) didn't repo…
Malaysia’s private healthcare sector is among Asean’s strongest, with 290 private hospitals and 19,000 beds. Frost & Sullivan cites expansion and medical tourism.
Malaysia is among Asean’s strongest private health care markets, says Frost & Sullivan, citing hospital expansion and medical tourism. Malaysia has ~290 private hospitals and ~19,000 private beds. MHIT claims funded grew 6x in 20…
Beyond Sabah's beaches lies a healthcare access gap: districts like Nabawan, Kalabakan and Tongod have the state's lowest accessibility scores, far from the concentrated west-coast services. 🏥
Malaysia's MOH is piloting AI at select hospitals to automate clinical documentation, aiming to cut doctors' paperwork load without disrupting patient care. 🤖
The project is also expected to reduce doctors' administrative workload.
8 Chinese medical universities, including Zhejiang University, have applied for official recognition in Malaysia. They're now going through MMC-approved assessment. 🎓
KUALA LUMPUR: Eight Chinese medical universities have applied for official recognition in Malaysia under a newly approved assessment process, says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.
Malaysia's Health Ministry now has full autonomy to manage & assign its own doctor positions, without going through JPA. Dzulkefly says this should finally ease staff shortages at understaffed hospitals. 🩺
KUALA LUMPUR: Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said his ministry now has full mandate and autonomy to manage, organise and distribute approved positions independently from the Public Service Department (JPA).
Sabah's Hospital Wanita dan Kanak-Kanak wants a PET-CT Centre and Cyclotron Facility so cancer patients get earlier diagnosis without leaving the state. 🎗️
Malaysia may help develop the world's first dengue treatment 💉 Hosp Raja Permaisuri Bainun (Ipoh) is now a trial site for a new antibody drug — dengue has no cure today.
This common viral infection currently has no cure, but healthcare experts are hopeful forthcoming clinical trials will have promising results.
DOSM's new "death calculator" uses 2000-2023 mortality data to reveal the top causes of death by age, gender and demographic group. 📊
KUALA LUMPUR: The Statistics Department's (DOSM) latest interactive calculator is giving Malaysians an insight into the leading causes of death among people of similar age and gender.
Rompin Hospital stayed open after a workers’ protest; salary issue resolved, says Pahang Health Dept.
KUANTAN, July 10 — Operations at Rompin Hospital and the delivery of healthcare services to patients have not been affected following a gathering by workers of a non-concession...
Malaysia's dengue cases jumped 34.8% to 42,848 this year; deaths up nearly 79% to 34. Klang Valley remains the hotspot. 🦟
PUTRAJAYA: The number of dengue cases recorded nationwide this year rose 34.8% to 42,848 as of Thursday (July 9), compared with 31,790 cases recorded during the same period last year.
Malaysia’s health budget won’t face a blanket freeze in 2026, says MOF — a crucial signal for hospitals, staffing and patient care as costs keep rising.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — The government is not implementing across-the-board restrictions on the allocations for the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Education (MoE)...