MOH in crisis Archives

10 February 2023

Letter

Patient Engagement Critical To Solving Public Health System Crisis – Mark Cheong

The Health Minister must engage with patients and the public, who have their own unique experiences, to truly understand problems and reform the physician-centric health care system into a patient-centred one, writes academic pharmacist Mark Cheong.

10 February 2023

Malaysia

Poll: 41% Of Housemen Face Bullying, 6% Workplace Sexual Harassment

CodeBlue's poll shows 41% prevalence of workplace bullying and 6% workplace sexual harassment among housemen. Meanwhile, among medical officers, 25% and 2% complain respectively of bullying and sexual harassment. Most complainants work in MOH hospitals.

9 February 2023

Malaysia

Bersatu Rep Slams Government’s Apathy Towards Crisis In Public Health Care System

Seberang Jaya assemblyman Dr Afif Bahardin says in a TikTok video that the PH-BN govt, especially the health minister, has yet to show serious efforts in resolving the crisis in the public health care system, noting that staff are overworked and underpaid.

7 February 2023

Malaysia

MCA: Address Crisis In Public Health Care System

MCA deputy treasurer-general Lawrence Low tells the government to take CodeBlue's survey among health care workers seriously and to increase MOH's 2023 budget, saying: "Will the government only take action after things go out of control?"

31 January 2023

Malaysia

‘MOH Is On The Brink Of Collapse’: Government Dentist, Penang

“MOH is on the brink of collapse. We are collapsing inside. And I think they know it, but they don't care,” says a permanent dental officer working in a Penang klinik pergigian, adding that nothing has moved despite DG Hisham being in office for a decade.

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Patient Engagement Critical To Solving Public Health System Crisis – Mark Cheong

Poll: 41% Of Housemen Face Bullying, 6% Workplace Sexual Harassment

Bersatu Rep Slams Government’s Apathy Towards Crisis In Public Health Care System

MCA: Address Crisis In Public Health Care System

‘MOH Is On The Brink Of Collapse’: Government Dentist, Penang

MOH And JPA Making It Hard For Specialists To Stay — Specialist

Universiti Malaya’s Nirmala Appointed To WHO Science Council

I Hope Medicine Is Kind To You — Dr Loshi Rajen

Malaysian Medical Negligence Damages Still Too Low: Lawyer

Why Malaysia’s Health Care Financing Model Is Mathematically Unsustainable