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Cover Story: Malaysia s healthcare allocation lags behind peer group average but rising, World Bank, WHO data shows

IN recent months, the public has been bombarded with news that Malaysia’s public healthcare system is in “critical condition” as Covid-19 admissions swamp hospitals. Meanwhile, social media is flooded with images of the dire situation, including pictures of Covid-19 patients being attended to on the floor at a major hospital that has run out of beds. Against this backdrop, one cannot help but wonder whether the country has put enough financial resources into the public healthcare system, especially for this long-drawn-out pandemic.

Decision to postpone Parliament must be apolitical, consider science and health

Decision to postpone Parliament must be apolitical, consider science and health
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We must support the rights of our health professionals

We must support the rights of our health professionals
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Crying out for fairer terms

HEALTH professionals are in the news this month not for Covid-19 reasons, but for their employment contracts. Between July 1 and July 12, the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) encouraged Malaysians to change their social media profiles into monochrome and wear black to work, as part of the Code Black and Black Monday initiative. Separately, on July 1, a group of junior doctors on the contract system (calling themselves Hartal) issued a three-week ultimatum to the government to offer permanent positions to all contract doctors and publish clear selection criteria for permanent posts. Failing which, they “will take drastic action by going on leave beginning July 26 until our demands are fulfilled” (which is essentially a strike).

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