Malaysian Medical Resources
14,205 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — The federal government should maintain if not increase its spending on public healthcare when it retables Budget 2023 in Parliament in the next few weeks,...
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With more demand for care as patients pour into hospitals and clinics, health care professionals are being forced to choose between care for themselves and care for their patients, which is incredibly unfair.
SHAH ALAM – As improper disposal of unused and expired medications becoming a rising concern due to its effect to the environment and community, Bukit Tinggi Medical Centre...
PETALING JAYA: The World Health Organization (WHO) is confident Malaysia's Covid-19 pandemic response will serve the country well as a key member of the standing committee on global health emergency preparedness, says Tan Sri Dr…
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With the current global focus on patients’ rights and the need for improvements in health care delivery, it is timely for the government to establish a Health Ombudsman system.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has urged the Health Ministry (MOH) to implement improvements that do not require long administrative processes and additional funding to speed up reforms in the healthcare sy…
An MO details how in an MOH hospital in Selangor where she served in 2022, the acute (critically ill) section of the neonatal ICU had one nurse to three babies, instead of one-to-one care. She also says young children placed in a…
In the permanent staff subset (798 people) of CodeBlue’s survey among government health care workers, 62% are currently thinking of quitting, while 41% are ready to go on strike. A quarter of permanent staff who want to quit are…
KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Zaliha Mustafa became the first Malaysian Health Minister to be honoured to chair the 152nd Session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, from Jan 30 to Feb 7.
KUALA LUMPUR: Healthcare needs strong cooperation and collaboration to address the “severe gaps” in managing health emergencies across nations, as evident during the Covid-19 pandemic.
PETALING JAYA: The green zone of Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang (HTAR)’s emergency department will reopen at 3pm on Friday (Feb 3).
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1. Utilizing public-private partnerships to fund healthcare projects and initiatives. 2. Leveraging technology to reduce healthcare costs, such as telemedicine and remote patient monitoring. 3. Establishing a healthcare fund, sup…
Its deputy director-general for public health says two senior officials had met with owners of bicycle and printing businesses.
Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah also says there were four deaths compared with none in the same period last year.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — The number of dengue fever cases in the 4th epidemiological week this year (Jan 22-28) dropped by 17.6 per cent to 1,910 cases from 2,319 cases the...
Ong KL et al. Association of omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids with incident chronic kidney disease: Pooled analysis of 19 cohorts. BMJ 2023 Jan 18; 380:e072909. (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072909)
The health minister says she plans to discuss the matter with the finance ministry.
PETALING JAYA, Selangor – With the emergency departments of some Malaysian government hospitals bursting at the seams, some doctors have said that the wait for beds can stretch to two days or more. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The public healthcare system is at risk of buckling under the pressure of a high volume of patients, increasing complexity of diseases, and an ageing population.