6 February 2020 Malaysia After Backlash, Socso Revokes Conditions For Free Dialysis All eligible insured persons with the social security fund, including its Invalidity Grant recipients, will now receive the dialysis aid as before.
5 February 2020 Malaysia Bosses Side With Workers, Want Socso To Cover Work Accident Kidney Failure The Malaysian Employers Federation opposes Socso's two-year contribution requirement for free dialysis.
5 February 2020 Malaysia MTUC Stands By Claim Socso Cutting Free Dialysis The law doesn't empower Socso to impose eligibility conditions for free dialysis, says MTUC.
3 February 2020 Malaysia With Rising Costs, Socso Says Can’t Be Sole Dialysis Provider The social security fund wants others to be involved in finding a solution to health financing.
3 February 2020 Malaysia Opposition MPs Slam Socso Rules Limiting Free Dialysis Wee Ka Siong says dialysis costs about RM3,000-RM4,000 monthly.
3 February 2020 Malaysia MCA To Sue Socso If Patients Shunted From Dialysis Centres Socso is planning to build a rehab centre and hospital in Perak for RM500 million.
31 January 2020 Letter New SOCSO Criteria For Dialysis Risk Excluding The Most Vulnerable — Azrul Mohd Khalib A co-pay mechanism based on means testing should be introduced instead.
31 January 2020 Malaysia Socso Stops Free Dialysis For Certain New Applicants Socso limited dialysis coverage starting 2020 to help improve the social security fund's sustainability.
15 January 2020 Malaysia NKF Unperturbed About Malaysia’s Kidney Failure Spike A 13% annual increase of treated kidney failure cases in the last decade was recorded in Malaysia, the second-highest rise worldwide.
14 January 2020 Malaysia Malaysia Second-Fastest Rising Kidney Failures Globally Worldwide, Malaysia has the second-highest incidence rate of kidney failure affecting young adults.