14,178 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
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Deputy Health Minister forecasts a 50% no-show rate among doctors offered permanent posts in Sabah this year, after just 20 of 39 reported for duty in June's intake. 😬
Deputy Health Minister Hanifah says she expects half of medical officers offered permanent positions in Sabah later this year to reject their offers. Her forecast was based on the June intake, where only 20 of 39 doctors posted t…
Doctors are pushing back against pharmacists joining emergency triage in public hospitals. Their warning: non-critical cases are not necessarily simple illnesses — and a pharmacy is not a clinic.
PMPASKL opposes MPS' suggestion to integrate community pharmacies into a new emergency triage system in public hospitals, saying non-critical cases aren't necessarily simple illnesses. "A pharmacy is not a clinic and a pharmacist…
Malaysia won't adopt mandatory national health insurance — "not politically right," says Health Minister Dzulkefly. Govt will expand private insurance/takaful instead. 🏥
Dr Dzul says Putrajaya isn't planning to introduce mandatory national health insurance, likening it to a "double war" on top of general taxation that funds public health care. The Madani government wants to "mainstream" private h…
Papar Hospital’s water resilience is being strengthened through a groundwater initiative — the kind of quiet hospital infrastructure fix that only gets noticed when it fails.
Kota Kinabalu: Seorang wanita berusia 27 tahun dijatuhi hukuman penjara lima tahun dan denda RM10,000 atau penjara 10 bulan sekiranya gagal membayar denda, kerana menjadi orang tengah bagi menawarkan
Malaysia’s new affordable medical insurance pilot may reshape private hospital flows fast. Hospitals left out of the MHIT panel could soon feel the patient-volume squeeze.
RHB Investment Bank Bhd (RHB Research) maintained its OVERWEIGHT call on the healthcare sector, with KPJ Healthcare Bhd, LAC Med Bhd and Duopharma Biotech Bhd as its top picks as the MediAsas Base Medical and Health Insurance/Tak…
81% of patients at Malaysia’s public clinics now see medical officers within 60 minutes after digitalisation rollout.
KUALA LUMPUR July, 8 — The implementation of the Cloud-Based Clinical Management System (CCMS) at government health clinics has helped reduce patient waiting times, with 81 per...
Malaysia’s workplace mental health crisis is no longer a HR issue to paper over with posters and wellness talk. It is now a measurable workplace hazard.
More than half of working Malaysians report high levels of work-related stress. Many of those people are, at this moment, sitting at a desk or standing on a line, doing their jobs and saying nothing.
Malaysia cannot keep calling this a staffing issue when it’s now a patient safety issue. An understaffed cardiology service means delayed diagnoses, delayed procedures, and avoidable deaths. Buildings don’t save lives. Doctors, nurses, and functioning equipment do. ❤️
HSAJB's cardiology department is severely understaffed and overworked, besides not having sufficient beds or angiography machines. Staff at every level are on excessive on-calls or double shifts. Johor has the lowest staffing occ…
Malaysia's DVS flags Salmonella Infantis among top 5 strains in healthy poultry — 90% of broiler, 93% of layer isolates were multidrug-resistant in 2025. 🐔
Salmonella Infantis is now among the top five Salmonella serovars isolated from healthy poultry in Malaysia, says DVS. It also revealed that 90% of broiler chicken and 93% of layer chicken Salmonella isolates were multidrug-resis…
Speaker urges MPs to get regular health screenings after the Kuala Terengganu MP was hospitalised at IJN this week. 🩺
KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Dr Johari Abdul today reminded Members of Parliament to undergo regular health screenings after an MP was hospitalised at the...
A houseman's account: HSAJB's ED handles ~300 patients/day with just 4 ECG machines, no privacy, and failing toilets. 🏥
A houseman claims that HSAJB's emergency department suffers from a lack of facilities like ECG machines, vital sign monitoring, and oxygen ports, besides lack of privacy when attending to patients, unhelpful support staff, and de…
A houseman's account: HSAJB's ED handles ~300 patients/day with just 4 ECG machines, no privacy, and failing toilets. 🏥
A houseman claims that HSAJB's emergency department suffers from a lack of facilities like ECG machines, vital sign monitoring, and oxygen ports, besides lack of privacy when attending to patients, unhelpful support staff, and de…
A Terengganu student was hurt after a broken thermometer spilled mercury in her school lab. Firefighters safely contained and disposed of it. ⚠️
DUNGUN, July 7 — A female student was injured after coming into contact with mercury spilled on a laboratory table at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Bukit Besi here today. Al...
Malaysia's health inflation doubled to 3% in 2025, DOSM says, driven by a 9% jump in insurance costs. 📈
PUTRAJAYA, July 7 — Health inflation in Malaysia increased to three per cent in 2025 from 1.4 per cent the previous year, driven by rising healthcare service costs.Chief...