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1 April 2026

Letter

Middle East War Raises Concerns For Malaysia’s Health Care System — Dr Hoomashini Gunasegaran, Dr Sean Thum & Dr Tharani Loganathan

Malaysia does have buffers, including energy revenues and existing subsidy frameworks, but these alone are not sufficient. What is needed is a more anticipatory approach that protects access to health care and nutrition while strengthening system resilience.

31 March 2026

Lead

‘First-Come, First-Served’, Pharma Company Tells MOH Hospitals As Supply Tightens

A drug maker warns of possible supply constraints and up to 50% cost increases, a "conservative" estimate, as it urged MOH hospitals to order early because “first-come, first-served” applies. Its notice has reached at least one public hospital in Sabah.

27 February 2026

Malaysia

Drug Companies Must Notify MOH Six Months Ahead Of Shortages, Says Dzulkefly

Drug makers must notify authorities six months before potential shortages. MOH keeps one to three months of medicine stock and appoints multiple suppliers to reduce supply risks, while monitoring supply and using pool procurement to secure critical drugs.

6 January 2026

Malaysia

Pharma MNCs Won’t Sell Drugs To Doctors Without Valid APC

The Pharmaceutical Association of Malaysia (PhAMA), representing pharma MNCs, says its member companies will not sell pharmaceutical products to doctors without a valid APC, saying the pharma industry is highly regulated for all levels of medicine use.

30 September 2025

Malaysia

Duopharma Biotech Appoints Group Chief Executive Officer

Wan Amir-Jeffery, the current Chief Executive Officer - Group Operations, will start in his new role beginning October 1, 2025

12 September 2025

Malaysia

Decades-Long Consumer Dissatisfaction Drove Drug Price Display: Dzulkefly

In an affidavit, Dr Dzul says drug price display was a response to consumer dissatisfaction and political scrutiny for over two decades since 2004, citing 99 consumer complaints and parliamentary questions (2019-2025), and multiple medicine price studies.

29 July 2025

Malaysia

Pharmacists’ Group Launches National Declaration Against Vape, Smoking

The Malaysian Pharmacists Society's (MPS) Declaration Against Vape and Smoking calls for liquid nicotine to be reinstated into the Poisons Act, and for the tobacco/ vape GEG to be legislated. MPS also urges pharmacists to lead smoking cessation efforts.

10 July 2025

World

DKSH And Bayer Launch Strategic Partnership Across Multiple Markets In Southeast Asia

DKSH has signed a strategic business partnership with Bayer to provide comprehensive services for a portion of the Bayer Pharmaceuticals business in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines.

4 July 2025

Malaysia

MOH’s Drug Procurement Chaos ‘Ironic’ After Price Transparency, Doctors Say

GPs call out the double standards in the MOH's price transparency policy, while the ministry's own "opaque" drug procurement practices come under fire from the pharmaceutical industry. "Real reform must start where the biggest leakages occur," says FPMPAM.

2 July 2025

Malaysia

Drug Procurement Maelstrom In MOH Triggers Industry Discontent

Confusion reigns about drug procurement in MOH, with issues like delays in procuring medicines, risking shortages; choosing generics at 100% to 200% higher prices than off-patent innovators; “opaque” tenders and insufficient support for the local industry.

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Middle East War Raises Concerns For Malaysia’s Health Care System — Dr Hoomashini Gunasegaran, Dr Sean Thum & Dr Tharani Loganathan

‘First-Come, First-Served’, Pharma Company Tells MOH Hospitals As Supply Tightens

Drug Companies Must Notify MOH Six Months Ahead Of Shortages, Says Dzulkefly

Pharma MNCs Won’t Sell Drugs To Doctors Without Valid APC

Duopharma Biotech Appoints Group Chief Executive Officer

Decades-Long Consumer Dissatisfaction Drove Drug Price Display: Dzulkefly

Pharmacists’ Group Launches National Declaration Against Vape, Smoking

DKSH And Bayer Launch Strategic Partnership Across Multiple Markets In Southeast Asia

MOH’s Drug Procurement Chaos ‘Ironic’ After Price Transparency, Doctors Say

Drug Procurement Maelstrom In MOH Triggers Industry Discontent

‘Zero Pending’, Zero Safety, Zero HCWs: The Burning Crisis At Queen Elizabeth Hospital — Health Worker

Malaysia Faces Emerging Shortage Of Dialysers, Haemodialysis Components

UMMC Denies Radiation Exposure Caused Staff Cancer ‘Cluster’

Ampang Hospital’s IT System Down For 33 Hours In First Huge Outage

Too Many Agencies Involved In Doctor Workforce Pipeline: Health DG