Orang Asli women from the Temiar tribe at Kg Makmur in Ulu Kinta, Perak, speak about mobile clinics for health checks and a Jakoa health transit station turned makeshift maternity ward.
PH’s GE15 manifesto contains much more substantive proposals to reform health, social and aged care that, crucially, address systemic issues, compared to business-as-usual PN and wholly apathetic BN.
Noraishah Mydin Abd Aziz, a person with disabilities who will run in Federal Territories, says MOHE rejected all her research grant applications for the study of neural tube defects.
The country’s largest doctors’ group is writing to political coalitions to brief their prime minister candidates on needed health care reforms, before the coalitions finalise their GE15 manifestos.
DAP’s Howard Lee says a new tax or a co-pay system to fund health and aged care is not on the table for Harapan because “now is not the time”. The UK launched its NHS in 1948 after World War II.
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.