The Selangor government’s health screening programme, Selangor Saring, not only provides iFOBT, cervical swabs, and mammograms, among others, but also covers the cost of further diagnostic tests; the SELangkah app can store one’s lifetime health record.
Sew Boon Lui, who has advanced breast cancer, says targeted therapy costs over RM6,000 monthly, chemotherapy over RM5,500 every 3 weeks, PET scans RM3,000 every 2 to 3 months; Socso covers a quarter of her chemo drug.
Experts moot a more efficient way of sourcing for cheaper cancer drugs, making minor legislative amendments to improve access to early treatment, and improving resource-sharing between public and private facilities.
Khairy Jamaluddin says physical childhood vaccination cards won’t be issued anymore and MySejahtera will carry “light” electronic health records for health screenings.