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Dr Dzul says MOH and JPA will table a proposal to Cabinet to increase doctors’ on-call allowance (ETAP) for implementation next year, adding that health workers are currently entitled to 21 allowances. BSM previously said an ETAP raise costs RM80mil/ year.
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A brain tumour patient says he was lucky to get surgery in just 2 weeks at UMSC instead of waiting 6 months or longer at UMMC, as he had insurance. Rakan KKM plans to operate likewise. The man slams inequality from privatisation: "The poor can go and die."
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Nearly 9 of 10 health workers who quit MOH to emigrate overseas were nurses, who comprised 381 of 440 health workers resigning from 2020-2024 to work abroad. Dr Dzul says health worker salaries are in line with Malaysia’s income level and fiscal position.
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A PSSC inquiry into a Health Service Commission proposal showed little willpower to solve issues of an overworked, underpaid and understaffed health service, as bureaucrats shifted blame across agencies and politicians acquiesced to maintaining status quo.
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Home dialysis patients and hospitals have signed up for plastic waste collection and recycling programmes in Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.
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PPPM says MOH faces a shortage of over 14,000 assistant medical officers (PPPs), calling for permanent posts to fill the gaps in specialist clinics left by nurses diverted to wards. Minimum qualification for PPP should be upgraded from diploma to degree.
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Initiatives that address period poverty in Malaysia have usually been implemented under the broader banner of sanitation or reproductive health, while the framing of period poverty as a distinct issue has been largely absent, according to a Suhakam report.
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Patient arrivals at MOH facilities (inpatient/outpatient/day care) rose 18% from 57.9 million arrivals in 2020 to 68.2 million arrivals in 2023. MOH tells the Health PSSC about plans for GP clinics to cover NCDs like diabetes under Madani Medical Scheme.
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The success of Malaysia’s vaccination programme was built not in silos, but on powerful public-private partnerships. To now exclude GPs from the MR campaign is to forget that hard-earned lesson.
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