Malaysian healthcare urgently needs more funding, say experts
As the government prepares to table Budget 2026 on Oct 10, healthcare professionals want a significant boost in funding to address mounting challenges with the sector under…
Ragananthini Vethasalam
Malaysian doctors fight medicine price rule
The doctors filed for a judicial review, saying the rule hurts small clinics and was introduced without proper consultation.
Malaysia’s Amended Poisons Act allows more effective action against abuses, ministries say
Under the amendments passed in the Dewan Rakyat on July 28, all police personnel regardless of rank, as well as individuals appointed by the Health Ministry, would be able to…
Malaysia’s hospitals still short of doctors
Patients at government facilities can face wait times of up to six hours, with doctors at understaffed clinics sometimes seeing between 80 and 100 patients in a single day.
Malaysians willing to take risk from buying fake medical certificates to skip a day’s work
Fake MCs have been a longstanding issue—one that has now found a thriving marketplace on social media, where one can request for a fake certificate anytime and even make…
Better incentives vital to retain nurses in face of critical shortage in Malaysia
A total of 2,141 nurses under the Health Ministry left for the private sector between 2020 and 2024. If the current trajectory continues, the shortage of nurses is projected to…
Food inflation burning a hole in Malaysian household budgets
According to a report by the Statistics Department, the threefold increase in food prices in the past five decades also saw the purchasing power of Malaysian households decline by…
Check before making further decision, Higher Education Ministry urges Harvard-bound Malaysians
This comes after the US State Department’s instruction to consulates worldwide on Friday (June 6) to resume processing visa applications of international students admitted to…
Surge in COVID-19 cases: Virus making a comeback in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, US
Between May 25 and 30, Thailand reported 65,880 new COVID-19 cases with three fatalities. In Malaysia, the Health Ministry said an average of 600 cases were reported each week…
Malaysian health ministry rolls out new rules for online healthcare
Under the guidelines, private online healthcare providers are prohibited from attending to emergency cases involving injury or acute illnesses.