Pool procurement between MOH, six teaching hospitals, and a military hospital to collectively purchase, as a single buyer, 82 drugs from 2020 to 2022 had saved the government RM79.6 million, says an MOH official.
MMA questions if JPA's move to drop scholarships for medicine courses this year (besides dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and para-medical) will affect the expertise needed in the public health care sector in the near future and long term.