14,182 reports from 2017–2026, collected from the Malaysian Medical News Telegram channel.
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Doctors are NOT practising illegally because of the APC 2026 delay. If you applied and paid by 31 Dec 2025, your practising status and indemnity remain valid from 1 Jan 2026. No enforcement action. This is an MMC systems failure, not a doctors’ fault.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry said the valid status and professional indemnity protection of medical practitioners remained intact despite delays in the issuance of the 2026 Annual Practising Certificate (APC).
A 4-month-old baby. A successful liver transplant. PPUM teams delivered surgical excellence, ICU care, anaesthesia, transfusion support, and coordination at the highest level. Quiet competence. Lives saved. National pride. 🇲🇾
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has congratulated the University of Malaya Medical Centre (PPUM) for successfully performing a liver transplant on a four-month-old baby.
APC 2026 delays mean doctors left technically unlicensed to practise, through no fault of their own. This is not a minor admin glitch. This is patient safety, workforce morale, and system credibility on the line. MMC needs to buck up. 🩺
MMC's delay in APC 2026 approvals has left many doctors across public/private sectors unlicensed to practise medicine since Jan 1, 2026. MMC's Merits portal shows 10 of 33 MMC council members without a 2026 APC. Practising withou…
TNB just raised the bar. Malaysia’s largest private healthcare solar rollout cuts energy costs, lowers carbon footprint, and proves green power is no longer a PR stunt. This is infrastructure-level change for hospitals. ⚡️
KPJ Healthcare and TNB's GSPARX partner to install Malaysia's largest private healthcare solar capacity by end-2026.
Malaysia’s kidney failure crisis is real. Up to 10 years wait for a donor kidney, only 4 public hospitals doing transplants, and over 10,000 still waiting. We need more donors, more capacity, more urgency now 💔
IN Malaysia, the figures are staggering. According to the Ministry of Health, there are over 10,000 new patients starting dialysis each year, while about 50,000 individuals with end-stage kidney disease underwent chronic dialysis…
Malaysia is finally treating organ transplantation as a true national priority. A central command centre, new council, stronger laws, faster donor pledges via MySejahtera… but we still need the public to step up. 400,000 pledges vs 10,000 waiting lives says everything.
KUALA LUMPUR: Organ transplantation will be reframed as a national agenda with the Health Ministry (MOH) restructuring the National Transplant Centre (NTC) into a central command body to drive policy, governance and nationwide co…
The MMA says the title “Dr” isn’t the problem. Misleading the public is. If you’re not registered with MMC, don’t act like you are. Patient safety > ego. Check registration before trusting health advice:
MMA says while the academic title "Dr" may be used by individuals who've completed a medical degree, this doesn't confer them the right to practise medicine or imply MMC registration. "The issue isn't the title itself, but the co…
Malaysia is quietly proving that AI in healthcare is not hype but execution. Dr Mata is screening diabetic retinopathy in 30 seconds, improving access, reducing delays, and protecting sight. This is how digital health should scale: safe, governed, useful.
The third phase of MyDigital demands solutions that are not merely digitised but transformative and capable of driving high-income growth while solving societal problems. This imperative is visible in the healthcare sector, where…
Removing special allowances from doctors serving Sabah & Sarawak is not “cost cutting.” It risks demoralising frontline staff, worsening retention, and weakening already stretched services. If we want equitable healthcare, we need fair incentives, not penalties.
SIBU (Dec 28): Discontinuing the special allowance for medical personnel serving in Sabah and Sarawak will heavily impact Malaysia’s already strained healthcare system, said the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Dudong and Sib…
Malaysia’s MADANI Health reform is not about hospitals alone. It is about systems. Prevention. Workforce. Financing. Digital health. Governance. Five levers, one reset of how care is delivered and paid for. 🏥
Malaysia's MADANI Health Reform focuses on five clusters: governance, service delivery, workforce, financing, and public health prevention
Malaysia’s Covid-19 story isn’t just data. It is frontline sacrifice, civil society stepping up, political failures, and a system pushed to the brink. We still need accountability, lessons learned, and real prep for the next pandemic.
During the pandemic, some stepped up to lead the way, while some didn't even follow the rules.
MMC clarifies: medical graduates can use the title “Doctor” to reflect academic qualification, even if they’re not registered to practise. But without MMC registration and APC, they cannot treat patients. Important distinction for public clarity.
This follows questions over newly-appointed minister Dr Taufiq Johari's title after checks found he was not registered with the medical council.
Bank Negara just drew a hard line. Insurers must pay medical claims promptly. They cannot invent exclusions patients never agreed to. This is basic fairness, finally enforced. ⚖️
BNM says ITOs cannot "unreasonably" delay or deny medical insurance claims, or enforce unknown exclusions. But no timelines were set for claims processing. The central bank also isn't mandating medical check-ups before buying hea…
Doctors are already avoiding East Malaysia due to staffing strain. Slashing BIW allowances to RM360 will only make care worse and hurt patients. Reconsider policies that punish those willing to serve where they’re needed most.
DAP's Dr Kelvin Yii says such steep cuts will aggravate the situation which is already dire.
Palliative care is still misunderstood in Malaysia. Too many patients get help only at the very end, when it should be about comfort, dignity, and better quality of life much earlier. Awareness matters because it changes outcomes.
People often perceive palliative care as end-of-life care
Malaysia just did multi-country live ENT surgery in real time. 5G + AI + XR. Surgeons and trainees joined across borders as if in one OR. This is not a demo. This is healthcare now.
Malaysia marked a major milestone in digital healthcare as Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and CelcomDigi Berhad (“CelcomDigi”) collaborated on […]
Sarawak is now putting RM1.5 billion of its own money into a cancer centre, including funding medical equipment for a federal project. This is a state stepping in because patients cannot wait. Cancer does not wait for budgets or bureaucracy. Healthcare planning should reflect that reality.
Sarawak increases its contribution to the Sarawak Cancer Centre by RM500 million, bringing total state funding to RM1.5 billion for specialised cancer treatment.
Malaysia keeps talking about a mental health crisis, but keeps funding clinics, not prevention 🧠 Lifestyle strategies matter: sleep, exercise, diet, social connection, screen time. They are cheap, scalable, and evidence-based. Medicalising distress alone will not fix this.
MMA calls for stronger lifestyle-based mental health strategies as depression rates double and workplace stress strains the nation's productivity.
Family refusal blocks ~90% of potential organ donations in Malaysia. The system is not the bottleneck. Culture, awareness, and end-of-life conversations are. If families do not know your wishes, the answer defaults to no. 🫀
Nearly 90% of potential cadaveric organ donations in Malaysia are blocked by deceased donors' families, leaving 21 people on the transplant waiting list to die each day. "We have many pledgers," says NTRC. "[But] that does not me…
Dengue cases and deaths are dropping sharply in Malaysia. Good news, but don’t get complacent. This is seasonal and fragile. Control measures work only if we keep them up. Eliminate breeding sites now, not after the next spike 🦟
Dengue deaths in Malaysia fell 61.3% to 43, with cases down 56.5% to 51,046, as Wolbachia programme expands.
Malaysia still treats children’s dental health as optional. Caries is preventable, but prevention needs parents, schools, water fluoridation, and early dental visits. Fillings are expensive. Prevention is cheap. 🦷
Six in 10 Malaysian five-year-olds have cavities as experts urge early dental visits, better awareness and improved access to prevent oral problems.
Only 600 pharmacist posts opened. Thousands trained. Years of study, then a bottleneck with no plan to absorb them. Workforce planning in healthcare cannot be guesswork 📉
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has clarified that only 600 government pharmacist positions were open when it began its appointment exercise for the July 2024 intake.
730 contract pharmacists. Expiring contracts. Zero clarity. Train them for years, then park them in “reserve” limbo while hospitals stay understaffed. This is not workforce planning. It is waste. MOH needs clear decisions now. Extend contracts or absorb them permanently.
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has been urged to resolve the status of 730 contract pharmacists whose contracts will expire next year.