27 March 2025
The collaboration supports Esyms’s focus on medication delivery, enhancing accessibility and convenience for government hospital and clinic patients across Malaysia.
Tag: health care delivery
18 June 2024
Patients ordering prescribed medicines from government health clinics and hospitals can now pay by debit card, credit card, or online banking via MOH's MyUBAT app.
16 February 2024
Former Health Minister Dr S. Subramaniam says the government must decide whether a university hospital's role is to be a service hospital or if it's meant to purely be a teaching hospital and research centre. If the former, then more funding must be given.
12 February 2024
A senior medical officer says one reason for long waiting times in govt hospitals is incompetent junior doctors who spend too much time on patients due to their lack of expertise. "The doctors produced now are less and less qualified to practise medicine."
6 February 2024
Letter
Health Care Settings Won’t Collapse Without Sufficient Housemen — Ministry Of Health Malaysia
MOH anticipates recovery in housemen numbers as medical school training is no longer disrupted, adding that MOs and specialists are responsible for medical care. "The notion that health care settings would collapse without sufficient HOs is unfounded."
8 December 2023
Health didn't improve in the Anwar govt's first year; it wasn’t even status quo, but worsened due to abhorrent policies, notably liquid nicotine delisting & forced resignations on contract doctors & pharmacists. CodeBlue marks the govt Grade D for health.
25 September 2023
Pharmacists are increasingly seen as critical partners in the multidisciplinary care team, addressing complex patient needs.
25 September 2023
"Experience over the past 20 years has shown that the MCO business model is that of cost control by 'rationing of care', not 'cost-containment'. It imposes rationing, exclusions, and limits choice, in order to control cost to increase their profit margin."
20 June 2023
The Health White Paper proposes registering Malaysians with a primary health care (PHC) provider of their choice. PHC services, carried out by multidisciplinary teams, will coordinate referrals to specialists or hospitalisation with the use of EMR.
20 June 2023
"There was no mention of a safer health system in the Health White Paper (HWP). When there is global recognition that patient safety is a continuing issue in health care delivery, it was ignored in the HWP. This was a monumental omission" – Dr Milton Lum.