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The Health Ministry has been allocated RM45.3 billion in Budget 2025, which is the second highest after the education ministry. It’s an almost 10% increase from the previous budget. Will it be enough to address the many issues affecting Malaysia’s public healthcare system? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Azrul Mohd Khalib, Chief Executive of the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy, a healthcare policy research and advocacy outfit.

The Health Ministry has been allocated RM45.3 billion in Budget 2025, which is the second highest after the education ministry. It’s an almost 10% increase from the previous budget. Will it be enough to address the many issues affecting Malaysia’s public healthcare system? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Farhan Rusli, Fellow at the Institute for Research and Development of Policy.

Health DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has called it a day after serving Malaysia for 35 years in the public healthcare sector.

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In prioritising public healthcare to build national resilience, the government has allocated RM32.4 billion to the Health Ministry (MoH) for operating and development expenditure.

Dr Koh noted that since 2006, the country's healthcare budget has been below four per cent of the GDP.

Mapping the relationships between variables explaining "brain drain" help evaluate the situation's gravity and envision ways to address it.

Healthcare has been underfunded compared to global standards.

Hsien Loong today announced that starting in November, Muslim nurses in the public healthcare sector in the republic will be allowed to wear a 'tudung' (hijab) with their uniforms.

The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) will build six more field hospitals to strengthen the national healthcare system as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic.

A sum of RM1 billion has been allocated to increase capacity and strengthen public healthcare under PEMERKASA Plus unveiled by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddn Yassin tonight.

According to Dr Noor Hisham, Malaysia achieved effective universal health coverage (UHC) in the 1990's through tax-funded public provision of health care services.

The public healthcare system in Sabah is still functioning as usual despite constraints faced due to the high number of COVID-19 cases in the state.

Khairy Jamaluddin says the index could pull together metrics from well-recognised and validated open-source databases on governance and public healthcare.

In a statement, the republic's Ministry of Health (MOH) said the patient labelled as Case 15,237 has no recent travel history to affected countries or regions.

Almost 200 residents from 60 homes in Kampung Tanjung Kala have ended up stuck when their 200-metre (m) long concrete bridge flooded.

The draft finance deal criticised by both developed and developing nations.

This was following the discovery of a suspected prohibited item in luggage.

Kelantan has reminded the public in the state to refrain from outdoor activities with the arrival of the Northeast Monsoon season.

Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern was given a global leadership award by the United Nations Foundation.

The decision of the ICC to issue arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is apt, said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KTMB will provide two additional ETS trains for the KL Sentral-Padang Besar route and return trips in conjunction with the holidays.

Malaysia's international reserves rose to US$118.0 billion as at Nov 15, 2024, up from US$117.6 billion on Oct 30, 2024.

The findings announced are part of a years-long study of the history of the cosmos focusing upon dark energy.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) wishes to offer the following clarifications to the issues raised.