The tobacco Generational End Game bill and the Health White Paper must survive the political transition process. Political parties should support health care reform.
As the current Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin is well within the accepted global public health scientific discourse when he dismissed the idea of harm reduction as a less harmful alternative to smoked tobacco.
Singapore and Indonesia are allowing foreign health care labour. Unless global and structural trends are reversed, Malaysia must start planning for the liberalisation of our health care labour market.
In my own Klinik Kesihatan in a busy suburban area in Selangor, we receive upwards of 1,000 patients a day, offering many services, but our ability to do our jobs properly is often hampered by operational and systemic failures.