Malaysian Medical Resources
14,248 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Malaysia’s candidacy as a representative of the Western Pacific Region (WPRO) on the World Health Organisation’s executive board has been endorsed, said Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. The Malaysian Health…
OCTOBER 9 — The recent World Sight Day with the theme ‘Hope in Sight’ aims to focus global attention on vision impairment and blindness. Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes complication that affects the eyes. High blood sugar leve…
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Malaysia has a bigger challenge with Covid-19 this time around due to the viciousness of the virus mutation, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said today. The Health director-general said the new strain of the…
KUALA LUMPUR: The Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) must be enforced in Klang until the R0 (R-naught) of Covid-19 drops below the critical value of 1.6 as the infection rate is at “worrying levels”.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Six Malaysians died from the Covid-19 virus today even though the total number of new infections dipped to 354 from yesterday’s 357 cases. The new deaths raises Malaysia’s fatality tally to 152. Three of the…
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 9): The Ministry of Health (MoH) has indicated that Malaysia still has sufficient capacity at its hospitals and quarantine centres, as only 36% of beds at government hospitals are currently in use to treat those…
Health director-general says there is a need for ‘full collaboration’ to contain the outbreak.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 — Flu may be seasonal in the American and European continents but not so in countries like Malaysia. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre infectious disease unit head Dr Petrick Periyasamy said even t…
Khairy Jamaluddin has asked the finance minister to set aside a few billion ringgit in Budget 2021 for a Covid-19 vaccine.
The number of mental health patients who joined MENTARI’s work support programme has multiplied from 160 individuals in 2014 to 1,011 individuals in 2019.
Stigma and discrimination towards HIV and other infectious diseases are counterproductive, it says.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 — As Malaysia now faces the third wave of the Covid-19 outbreak, Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah reiterated today for Malaysians to stay at home. In his press conference today, Dr Noor…
Effective Oct 10, all Malaysian citizens who wish to enter Sarawak from peninsular Malaysia will be quarantined for 14 days at quarantine centres.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) believes that the spike in Covid-19 cases, especially in Sabah and Kedah, can be better handled if states are allowed to act independently to manage the pandemic.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 — Malaysia’s new Covid-19 cases today fell for the second day in a row to 375, however, its death toll rose to 146 after five people succumbed to the coronavirus, said the Ministry of Health. Health Director-G…
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 — The government today announced that three districts in Sabah and one district in Selangor will be under a 14-day conditional movement control order (CMCO) from October 9 as they are Covid-19 red zones. Senio…
There were 487 local infections and only two imported cases.
Schools in Klang, Selangor, and Sandakan, Papar and Tuaran in Sabah will closed from Oct 8 to Oct 23.
They are known as the Bah Puchong and Reman Prison clusters.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin closed his special address on the Covid-19 pandemic today warning that authorities cannot spare the rod to curb the recent spike of the coronavirus cases. Referring to…
Malaysia operates an internationally lauded healthcare system, fueled by investments in world-class facilities and quality human resources.
KUALA LUMPUR (BERNAMA) – A one-year-old girl, who is among the four fatalities reported yesterday, is the youngest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, said Malaysian Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdu…
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 6): As anticipation grows with results of human trials of at least one of the Covid-19 vaccine hopefuls coming out this month, public health experts are counselling caution and adherence to current precautionary…