migrant workers Archives

21 March 2025

Letter

Bridging The Gaps: Strengthening Malaysia’s TB Response For Migrant Workers — Dr Jo Ann Andoy Galvan

Malaysia has the expertise and infrastructure to eliminate TB. However, systemic gaps in TB management, particularly concerning migrant workers, continue to hinder progress.

29 September 2023

Malaysia

How NCSM Brought Covid-19 Vaccines To Vulnerable Communities

NCSM explains how it went door to door and ran community programmes to administer Covid-19 vaccination to vulnerable communities, including cancer patients, bed-bound individuals, people with intellectual disabilities, migrant workers, and care facility residents.

17 February 2023

Letter

Improving Medical Screening In View Of The Foreign Worker Employment Relaxation Plan – Jason Loh & Juhi Todi

While the government takes extra steps to make medical screening more rigorous, it should also ensure that there is no prejudice and discrimination towards migrant workers.

16 November 2022

World

Mobile Indonesians Powering The Economy

Population growth isn’t automatically good for Indonesia. Developing young people, and helping them to move are both key to economic development.

30 September 2022

Malaysia

MOH Directive On Undocumented Persons Fuels Xenophobia

A circular issued in 2001 requires government health care workers to inform the police when they encounter undocumented persons, with some refusing to provide treatment.

18 July 2022

Malaysia

MMA Opposes One-Year Health Screening Window For Foreign Workers

The Malaysian Medical Association says FOMEMA's health screening period can be extended from 30 to 60 days, but not 365 days as this raises the risk of imported cases of infectious disease.

31 December 2021

Opinion

Reflections On The Covid-19 Pandemic At Two Years – Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Fixing the health system to put us in readiness for an Omicron surge and other potential new variants is doable; the harder part is addressing the structural and systemic problems, whether it’s urban poverty, our treatment of migrant workers, or prison overcrowding as a result of punitive drug laws.

21 December 2021

Malaysia

Minister: 3% Of 37,662 Peninsula Employers Probed Over Workers’ Housing

Among 37,662 peninsula-based employers with 152,652 workers’ accommodation facilities inspected as of 30 Nov, the Labour Department opened 1,169 investigation papers, issued 817 compounds, and made 134 court charges.

25 August 2021

Malaysia

Rep: Vaccinate Undocumented Migrants By Going To Them

Michelle Ng says without a moratorium on immigration laws, there is no guarantee that undocumented persons will be spared from arrests when getting Covid-19 shots at vaccine centres.

27 July 2021

Letter

Inoculating Undocumented Workers Helps In Whole Community-Based Herd Immunity — M. Kula Segaran

The time for the lock-them-up and lock-us-down approach must end. We can do this by treating others as how we want to be treated ourselves.

Tag: migrant workers

Bridging The Gaps: Strengthening Malaysia’s TB Response For Migrant Workers — Dr Jo Ann Andoy Galvan

How NCSM Brought Covid-19 Vaccines To Vulnerable Communities

Improving Medical Screening In View Of The Foreign Worker Employment Relaxation Plan – Jason Loh & Juhi Todi

Mobile Indonesians Powering The Economy

MOH Directive On Undocumented Persons Fuels Xenophobia

MMA Opposes One-Year Health Screening Window For Foreign Workers

Reflections On The Covid-19 Pandemic At Two Years – Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Minister: 3% Of 37,662 Peninsula Employers Probed Over Workers’ Housing

Rep: Vaccinate Undocumented Migrants By Going To Them

Inoculating Undocumented Workers Helps In Whole Community-Based Herd Immunity — M. Kula Segaran

Pork Importers Back Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Time To Phase Out Colonial-Era PTD Scheme From Malaysia’s Civil Service

Sultan Sharafuddin Wants Total Pig Farming Ban In Selangor

Half Of EPF Members Have Under RM50,000, KWAP Warns Of ‘Optimism Bias’

Critical Manpower Shortage, Unsafe Working Conditions At HTAR Klang — Medical Officer