We make the following two recommendations for Dr Zaliha Mustafa to consider for implementation in her first 100 days: table and vote on the tobacco control bill and publish the Health Reform White Paper.
The health minister is scheduled to observe Covid-19 vaccination outreach activities in a Semporna island and to visit Tawau Hospital, after visiting Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu and Paper Hospital.
As health minister, Khairy Jamaluddin is expected to bring the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme with him to MOH, resolving the peculiar incongruity when the vaccine rollout was placed under his leadership in MOSTI.