14 December 2022
Malaysia’s Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is chair of the World Health Organization’s new Standing Committee on Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
Tag: World Health Organization
24 May 2022
Letter
Khairy Now Obliged To Uphold Malaysia’s Reputation Of Among World’s Best Health Care Systems – MMA
While Malaysia's health care system is still among the best in the world, many would agree that it is ageing, and there is a lot of room for improvement.
24 May 2022
Malaysia’s contributions to WHO for 2022-2023 are about RM14mil, which the government has agreed to increase by 20% to RM16.8mil for 2024-2025 and by 40% to RM19.6mil for 2028-2029, based on current exchange rates.
23 May 2022
Dr Kelvin Yii urges vaccination for Malaysian travellers to countries affected by monkeypox, monitoring incoming travellers, and possible quarantine to prevent local transmission.
23 May 2022
The UK Health Security Agency says a “notable proportion” of recent monkeypox cases in UK and Europe were detected in gay and bisexual men, urging this community to be alert and to seek help if concerned.
23 May 2022
Djibouti was elected as president of the 75th World Health Assembly; vice-presidents were elected from Malaysia, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Togo, and the United States.
27 April 2022
Human health, animal health, and environmental health are inextricably linked to each other.
18 April 2022
WHO emphasised the need to maintain “robust” genome surveillance systems that will allow countries to track and analyse the two Omicron subvariants.
7 January 2022
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the tsunami of Covid-19 cases is so huge and quick that it is overwhelming health systems around the world.
8 December 2021
WHO Western Pacific regional director Dr Takeshi Kasai received a presentation at MOH’s Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre (CPRC) about Malaysia’s new Heightened Alert System.