29 January 2026
Maaedicare Charitable Foundation is tackling the kidney failure crisis by subsidising dialysis treatment for 100 new, low-income Malaysian patients from B40 households.
Tag: dialysis
6 October 2025
Patients say peritoneal dialysis is more flexible than haemodialysis, but more financial and caregiver support is needed. “Socso covers my machine and solutions, but everything else is on me,” says a PD patient who pays up to RM250 monthly out of pocket.
4 September 2025
Malaysia
Vantive Expands Access To Recycling Programmes Across Southeast Asia, Australia And New Zealand
Home dialysis patients and hospitals have signed up for plastic waste collection and recycling programmes in Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand.
8 January 2025
The Ministry of Health is reviewing dialysis and day care charges for underprivileged groups, currently based on the Fees (Medical) Order 2017. Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad says fee waiver requests must be submitted to the Treasury for approval.
14 March 2024
Letter
Malaysia Is On The Brink Of A Kidney Disease Crisis — Galen Centre For Health And Social Policy
The Galen Centre says Malaysia is on the brink of a kidney disease crisis. Socso spent RM1.22mil on dialysis for its contributors in 1999. This increased a whopping 274x in 23 years to RM334.67mil in 2022. Over 51,000 Malaysians currently live with ESRD.
2 May 2023
Malaysia
NKF Malaysia Signs MoU With Malaysian Pharmacists Society To Raise Funds For Kidney Failure Patients
The MoU will entail placement of donation boxes in pharmacies nationwide.
14 April 2023
Malaysia
Malaysia Has Under 300 Nephrologists To Treat Millions Affected By Chronic Kidney Disease, Says HKL Nephrologist
HKL nephrologist Dr Mohamad Zaimi Abdul Wahab suggests kidney failure patients can do away with dialysis if organs were readily available. “It will not provide what an actual kidney can for your body, as simple as that". Malaysia has under 300 nephrologists across public/ private sectors.
13 April 2023
Malaysia
Half Of Dialysis Patients In Malaysia Won’t Live Long Enough To Receive A Kidney Transplant: Nephrologist
Despite a surge in organ donor pledges, Malaysia’s lack of organ donations means that only 1.6 per 1,000 dialysis patients receive a kidney transplant, says a HKL nephrologist. Surviving family members can still veto a deceased’s organ donation pledge.
1 September 2022
Columbia Asia Group of Hospitals has opened its second dialysis unit at CAH-Tebrau in Johor Bahru to accommodate an increasing number of renal failure patients in Johor.
20 April 2022
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