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MMA working with ministry to regulate healthcare middlemen -

MMA president Dr Ravindran R Naidu says the association wants the health ministry to eliminate unethical practices of third party administrators hired by employers.

Health Ministry mulls pooled procurement for medicines

Updated FAQ on CPD from the MMC

Helping adult diabetics avoid blindness

KUALA LUMPUR: Diabetes is the most common cause of blindness among adults in Malaysia. According to the 2006 National Health and Morbidity Survey, about 15,000 to 39,000 people lost their sight because of diabetes. This condition…

Terima suapan, doktor ATM dipenjara 5 tahun, denda RM7 juta -

Hakim Rozilah Salleh membuat keputusan itu selepas berpuas hati bahawa pihak pembelaan gagal menimbulkan keraguan munasabah terhadap kes pendakwaan.

1Malaysia clinics to be revamped, says Dzulkefly -

Health minister says the clinics will be encouraged to conduct more early detection of medical conditions.

Measles cases on the rise - Health Ministry

PUTRAJAYA: Health authorities are concerned by the high number of measles cases with a 22.3 per cent increase compared to the first five months last year.

Rights group demand better healthcare after WHO says being transgender not a mental illness | Malay Mail

KUALA LUMPUR, JUNE 23 — A transgender rights group urged the Health Ministry today to introduce trans-specific healthcare services after the World Health Organisation (WHO) no longer classified being transgender as a mental disor…

Activist urges govt to introduce mental health assessment system | Malay Mail

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — The government needs to introduce a mental health assessment system which can determine the extent of mental disorders that can lead to crime occurrences or criminal acts, said social activist Tan Sri Lee…

Almost all foreign workers in study carry food poisoning microbes

KUALA LUMPUR: Almost all foreign workers tested in a study were found to be carrying microbes which could cause food poisoning and even death, and a small percentage of them harboured antibiotic resistant bacteria, said researche…

Warded patients' relatives told to utilize QEH's dormitory

KOTA KINABALU: Relatives of ward patients should make use of Queen Elizabeth Hospital 1’s (QEH’s) free public dormitory instead of turning its grounds into a ‘refugee camp’,…

MP lodges MACC report on drug procurement scandal -

Klang MP urges the new government to do away with tendering agents who are marking up the prices of medication.

Health Dept to hold supplementary immunisation against measles

KUCHING: The Health Department will carry out supplementary immunisation activity (SIA) in Bintulu starting July 2, following a spike in measles cases there. In a statement yesterday, director Dr J…

Child marriages in Malaysia — Girls Not Brides | Malay Mail

JUNE 21 — In a few days, Girls Not Brides, a global partnership of hundreds of civil society organisations (CSO) committed to ending child marriage, will hold its 2nd global meeting in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has the unique opport…

Hidden costs in transfers - Letters | The Star Online https://t.co/4IA2MJKgAB via @staronline

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Perak reps lodge report over medicine monopoly claims, demand Subra’s explanation | Malay Mail

IPOH, June 19 — Two Perak DAP assemblymen have lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), urging the anti-graft body to probe recent revelations of a billion-ringgit medical supply monopoly. Keranji ass…

National Blood Centre Urges Public to Donate More Blood Due to Insufficient Supply https://www.worldofbuzz.com/national-blood-centre-urges-public-to-donate-more-blood-due-to-insufficient-supply/ via @worldofbuzz

For the longest time, hospital and authorities in the field of medicine have been urging fellow Malaysians to donate blood as much as possible. This is because it's important to keep our blood bank full at all times, in case of e…

Shock find at Tawau Hospital

Minister: Health Ministry’s Health Promotion Board to go | Malay Mail

PUTRAJAYA, June 20 — The Pakatan Harapan (PH) government has decided to abolish the Health Promotion Board (MySihat) as part of its rationalisation plan, Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad said today. “Few things I would like to rep…

WhatsApp message linking Nipah virus to food wrapped in banana leaf not true, says Health Ministry - Nation | The Star Online http://po.st/ux2Pxm via @staronline

PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry has debunked a message that has gone viral on social media linking a death at a local private hospital to consuming food wrapped in banana leaf and supposedly caused by the Nipah virus.

Primary care services important

I REFER to the article, “Dzulkefly outlines 6 measures for better health services” (NST, June 10), in which it said the Health Ministry outlined strategies to optimise healthcare services.

Source: Not true that many can't afford bank guarantee to bid for Health Ministry tenders

KUALA LUMPUR: A source has refuted a tendering agent's claims that not many companies can afford the bank guarantee in order to participate in the tender process for medical supplies to the Health Ministry.

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Public outrage and medicine men in the middle -

At what point does the business of supplying medical drugs to the government begin to look like an institutionalised version of 'Ali Baba' and rent-seeking?