10 December 2020
Under Budget 2021, the allocation for disease control, which falls under public health, was cut by RM8 million from this year.
Tag: polio
17 November 2020
The hexavalent combination vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenzae type b, with doses given at age two months, three months, five months, and 18 months.
11 November 2020
About 81% of children in Sabah received two doses of the monovalent oral polio vaccine, while 96% received two doses of the bivalent oral polio vaccine.
29 July 2020
Dr Lee Boon Chye questions if Malaysia’s all-cause mortality rose in the first six months of 2020.
24 April 2020
World Immunisation Week runs from April 24 to 30 to raise awareness on the use of vaccines as protection from diseases.
10 March 2020
Polio containment efforts have identified children with strains of the polio virus in their stool, but these don’t count as polio cases.
28 February 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has supplied Malaysia 2.5 million oral polio vaccine doses.
24 January 2020
Everyone must charge affordable prices for health care at all times, regardless if there's an outbreak.
23 January 2020
They say the anti-vaccine movement in Malaysia is becoming harder to quash.
17 January 2020
Polio immunisation coverage in Malaysia in 2018 was 100.22%, according to MOH.