The collaboration aims to empower patients in Malaysia to take control of their health by launching a digital therapeutics platform that focuses on three key therapeutic areas namely smoking cessation, vaccination, and heart health.
Hang Tuah Jaya MP Shamsul Iskandar Akin notes that cardiovascular and kidney disease are the most common causes of death for Malaysians, killing 172,031 people in 2018.
Mukhriz Mahathir asks MOH to increase the budget for research and technical support and to give it to the Institute of Medical Research (IMR) Malaysia, instead of cutting it.
Dr Adham Baba did not answer questions on the budget cut for public health, nor on the impact of transferring drug allocations out of individual departments on clinicians.
Both Kuala Kedah MP Dr Azman Ismail and Jerlun MP Mukhriz Mahathir want more funds to combat chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.