16 November 2022
PN’s Segambut candidate V. Prabagaran wants to build a public health clinic, while the coalition’s Setiawangsa candidate Nurul Fadzilah pledges a soup kitchen for PPR residents.
Tag: Perikatan Nasional (PN)
14 November 2022
Although MOH has never published projections of Covid-19 deaths (only models of predicted infection rates), ex-PM Muhyiddin Yassin claims that Malaysia could have faced 80,000 to 100,000 Covid-19 deaths without MCOs, over double the current 36,000 toll.
12 November 2022
PN candidate Radzi Jidin plans to make Saturday a sports day to tackle obesity in Putrajaya, where nearly half of adult residents are obese, the highest in Malaysia.
11 November 2022
PN’s Radzi Jidin and PH’s Wong Chen say boosting public health care spending to 5% of the GDP can be funded by tackling corruption; BN’s Tengku Adnan simply says: “We know how to get the budget”.
10 November 2022
The Galen Centre says it’s not enough to cut wastage or corruption to boost health care funding; PH, BN, and PN show business-as-usual for health financing without commitments to reform.
7 November 2022
PN also pledges to form a Health Service Commission to manage health care professionals' human resources, besides improving the health care system to include senior citizens' needs.
8 March 2020
Technocrats are best left in the civil service, as ministers are answerable to the people for the policies and legislation they make based on their ideology.