Malaysian Medical Resources
14,260 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
JOHOR BARU, Feb 5 — The Johor Health Department rejected today claims on social media that Hospital Pontian was running out of surgical masks. The department also posted a statement on Facebook to say that it has reported the mat…
KUALA LUMPUR: In just 10 days after Malaysia recorded its first case of 2019-nCoV coronavirus infection on Jan 25, 12 people have tested positive up to yesterday.
A Malaysian woman is charged in court for inciting public mischief over a social media post on the new coronavirus amid a crackdown on the spread of misleading news about the outbreak, as the government announces two new cases, b…
PUTRAJAYA: Seventy-four people have been identified for contact tracing following the first Malaysian case of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad. He said out of the 74 close…
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 — A recent ship that berthed in the Melaka port of Kuala Linggi is not from Wuhan as claimed on social media posts, the Melaka Health Department said amid increasing public fears over a respiratory virus outbr…
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 — A representative from the World Health Organisation (WHO) today commended Malaysian authorities for its open and informative management of the Wuhan virus outbreak since it spread from Chinese to 28 other co…
PUTRAJAYA: Two Malaysians who were part of the group that returned from Wuhan, China, on Tuesday morning, have tested positive for the novel coronavir...
SINGAPORE, Feb 5 — An international business gathering at a plush Singapore hotel has been linked to coronavirus cases that have spread across the region, in a worrying sign of secondary transmissions from an epidemic that origin…
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — A Malaysian man has tested positive for the Wuhan virus, the first local to date, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad at a press conference today. Dzulkefly said the man travelled to Singapore fr…
41-year-old had travelled to S'pore for a meeting with colleagues from China – including one from Wuhan.
IT’S chilling and it reminds me of sci-fi movies we might have seen where towns are abandoned after invasions and attacks of various kinds from aliens...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Dzulkefly Ahmad has discouraged the public from over-relying on alternative forms of medication. Instead, he urged patients to meet doctors and use evidence-based treatment for ali…
Sarawak says it is also running its own rapid blood tests for coronavirus infection instead of sending samples to Kuala Lumpur.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — The Health Ministry is working towards increasing the number of oncologists ― or doctors dealing in prevention and treatment of cancer ― in Malaysia, primarily by encouraging more young medical officers to t…
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 — While everybody knows what day February 14 is, not many even know that today is World Cancer Day (WCD). In Malaysia, doctors, medical specialists and experts on cancer will come together this year on a natio…
PUTRAJAYA: Stringent measures have been put in place to manage risks and threats of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2020’s 1st Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM1) and Related Meetings wh…
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 3): The overwhelming demand for hand sanitisers in view of the new coronavirus outbreak has led to many pharmacies running out of st...
His lawyer says the judge held that it was an abuse of process to have charged the doctor under the Penal Code.
MELAKA, Feb 3 — The Melaka Hospital provides six isolation rooms at the Special Wards in Block E of the hospital to house patients under investigation (PUI) for the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and other infectious diseases…
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, will be housed in a facility ...