23 April 2026
First Ambulance Services has been named Ambulance Service of the Year (Asia-Pacific) at the Global Health Asia-Pacific Healthcare Awards for the sixth time since 2020.
Tag: emergency medical response
8 October 2024
If you know CPR, don’t hesitate to do it, says an IJN physician. No legal action has ever been taken against someone performing CPR in Malaysia, and it can increase survival chances by three to five times. “If you know how, just do it.”
28 March 2023
According to a 2015 study cited by Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa in a written parliamentary reply, of 389 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases sampled 2009-2012 in Malaysia, 47% had eyewitnesses, 23% received CPR from bystanders, 8% went to hospital.
16 March 2023
Dr Zaliha Mustafa attributed the MOH’s inability to meet its KPI to staffing shortages and a lack of ambulances, with the ministry having procured only 590 units despite needing 1,100 for optimal service.
27 February 2023
Deputy Health Minister Lukanisman tells Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee, who asked if MOH has a policy allowing CPR to be withheld if the ambulance arrives more than 15 minutes from an emergency call, that MOH is improving the CPR SOP to avoid a repeat of "past incidents".
23 February 2023
Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa tells Ipoh Timor MP Howard Lee in a parliamentary reply that between 28% and 42% of MOH ambulances achieved the 15-min KPI arrival for critical emergency cases from 2016 to 2022.
29 December 2022
2022 saw major health issues like medicine shortages, the tobacco bill, and MySejahtera, while chronic problems like overcrowded emergency departments, junior doctor bullying, and NCDs remain unresolved. Health care reform is a key question entering 2023.
26 December 2022
Emergency physician Dr Alzamani details how medical teams from various hospitals, clinics, and the state health department worked together for a coordinated emergency medical response.
8 July 2022
Ampang Hospital ETD head Dr Ridzuan Mohd Isa is chairing the independent inquiry into Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital's ambulance response in Kumar’s case, with committee members including forensic experts and cardiologists from hospitals outside HRPB.
5 July 2022
The Health Ministry's National Committee on Resuscitation Training (NCORT) states in a 2012 guideline: “It is a duty of every doctor to attempt resuscitation on any patients with cardiac arrest.”