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MMA courting deregistration, warns ROS
Star: SEREMBAN: The Malaysian Medical Association will only have itself to blame if it is deregistered for failing to hold fresh elections.Registrar of Societies Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman said the body had been given ample time to conduct fresh elections after it had violated several procedures during the last election in May.“We cannot be issuing reminders to the MMA. We deferred their
Hypertension alert
Sun Daily HERE are some grim news: many people who have hypertension do not even know that they have it.According to Dr Azani Mohammed Daud (right), who is the president of the Malaysian Society of Hypertension, “for every person diagnosed with hypertension, there are six who are not”.Speaking at the society’s ninth Annual Scientific Meeting recently, he said only 40% of Malaysians suffering from
PneumaScan installed in Hospital Kuala Lumpur
MTB Europe Cambridge company PneumaCare Limited has installed its innovative PneumaScan respiratory assessment device in Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL), the largest hospital under the Ministry of Health in Malaysia.Dr Ward Hills, PneumaCare’s CEO, and Dr Simon Baker the Product Director, delivered the device to Datuk Dr Jeyaindran Sinnadurai, Head of the Department of General Medicine at HKL, where
Rotavirus outbreak under control
Star: IPOH: The rotavirus outbreak at Hilir Perak and Batang Padang is under control and is settling down.Perak Health Committee chairman Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said the number of reported cases had dwindled since it first broke out.“Out of the eight cases we tested on Thursday, only one was tested positive.“When it first surfaced a week ago, 13 out of 18 cases were positive,” Dr Mah told
Dr M: Public contribution to healthcare needed due to rising costs
Malaysian Insider: SERDANG, Feb 15 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad pointed to the rising cost of healthcare as a defence for Putrajaya’s new controversial contribution-based “1 Care” proposal.The former prime minister did not delve deeply into the matter, stating only that government could no longer shoulder the country’s healthcare burden on its own.“Our (current) system is non-contributory. It was
Authorities still unable to detect source of outbreak in Perak
Star: PETALING JAYA: The rotavirus responsible for the acute gastroenteritis (AGE) outbreak in Perak continues to evade detection.Perak Health Committee chairman Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said nine water samples taken from the affected areas tested negative for rotavirus while the results for 14 samples were pending.He said more than half of the stool samples from patients had tested positive for
Still divided over 1Care plan
Star: PETALING JAYA: Amid public uproar over the 1Care for 1Malaysia healthcare transformation plan, industry stakeholders remain divided over its status.Despite the Health Ministry’s reassurances that the programme is only at the planning stage, some feel that it is well on its way to being implemented.Academy of Medicine Malaysia head Dr Chang Keng Wee claimed that the “planning cart has
Pharmacy grads will have jobs, minister says
Malaysian Insider: KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai assured unemployed pharmacy graduates today they will have jobs soon.The health minister blamed the delay of a salary scale for civil servants under a revised government remuneration scheme for the lack of jobs.“Lately, the bit of delay of employing our pharmacists into our system is due to the new SBPA that has been deferred,”
Hand it to the docs
SunDaily: KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 14, 2012): An insurance agent who had lost a hand in a robbery will likely be able to use it again.This is thanks to the team of doctors who not only carried out surgery through the night to reattach it, but went beyond the call of duty to search the crime scene for the severed member.The quick action and exemplary dedication of the doctors from Gleneagles Hospital
Malaysia's Pharmaceutical Exports To Hit RM610 Million In 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian pharmaceutical industry is gaining global recognition with exports expected to grow eight per cent this year to RM610 million from RM564 million in 2011.Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said this at the launch of the PhAMA Industry Fact Book here today.He said Malaysian pharmaceuticals was one of the 13 entry point projects (EPPs) related
Mercy Malaysia Seeks Funds For Somalian, Philippine Humantarian Missions
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy Malaysia) is seeking public funds to raise at least RM2 million to carry out various humanitarian projects in Mogadishu, Somalia and Mindanao, Philippines.Mercy Malaysia Vice-President II Norazam Ab Samah said they planned to use the funds for medical aid, supplementary feeding centres, outreach clinic for primary
GMP Certification Required For Imported Pharmaceutical Products From July
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 (Bernama) -- Pharmaceutical products not manufactured in Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation Scheme (PICS) member countries will be required to obtain Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certification starting July before it can be sold in Malaysia.Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said this was to ensure that imported medicine complied with safety and quality
Liow attacks 1 Care critics
Malaysian Insider: KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai today slammed critics for manipulating Putrajaya’s controversial 1 Care proposal.“There are certain quarters trying to manipulate the situation and trying to confuse the public by focusing on the 10 per cent salary (deduction), which is also a false figure,” Liow told a press conference following the launch of a
Health Ministry: Clarifications on 1Care article
Malaysiakini: We (Ministry of Health) refer to the article titled 'Ill-Feelings over 1Care in East Malaysia' printed in your portal on Feb 12, 2012.This article unfortunately contains various inconsistencies and misleading facts on the 1Care concept. This is despite us explaining the idea clearly to the media, including a Malaysiakini representative in a briefing organised on Feb 9, 2012.We wish
Restructuring the Malaysian health system: Is there a need? — Academy of Medicine of Malaysia
Malaysian Insider: FEB 14 — We observe with concern and interest the recent discussions by the ‘rakyat’ and explanations by the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) in the print and electronic media regarding the planned National Health System Transformation. We agree that there are deficiencies in the present system that need to be addressed and applaud the Director-General of Health’s pledge to
1 Care merely ‘upgrade’ of current healthcare system, says minister
Malaysian Insider: GOMBAK, Feb 11 — Putrajaya’s controversial 1 Care proposal is merely an “upgrade” of Malaysia’s current two-pronged healthcare system, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today.The health minister told reporters that any discussion of 1 Care was “premature”.He repeatedly stressed that the matter is at a “discussion level” in what appears to be an attempt to allay the public’s alarm
Health ministry to intensify anti-smoking campaign
SunDaily: KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 11, 2012): The Health Ministy will intensify the anti smoking campaign this year in its bid to reduce the number of smokers in this country.Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said currently, 20 per cent of Malaysia's 28 million population were smokers.He said as part of the campaign, all patients at government clinics and hospitals who are smokers will be
Malaysia's health ministry mulls heavier fines for mosquito breeders
AsiaOne: KUALA LUMPUR - The Health Ministry is mulling over a proposal to increase the compound fine for neglecting to clear up stagnant water if the dengue situation worsens.Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said that water stagnation was a prime Aedes mosquito-breeding ground.He said the current compound fine was set at RM100, a reduction from the RM500 set in 2010."We will have to
Group claims GPs will need ‘double-licensing’ under 1 Care
Malaysian Insider: PETALING JAYA, Feb 12 — The proposed 1 Care health scheme will require all general practitioners to submit to additional accreditation before they are allowed to treat patients, a citizens’ group asserted today.The Citizens’ Healthcare Coalition (CHC) claimed that all current general practitioners would be screened via special authority called the National Health Financing
1 Care not yet cast in stone, says Health D-G
Malaysian Insider: KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 — The director-general of Health today insisted that the controversial 1 Care proposal is still a “work in progress” and that the government could reject the scheme if found to be unacceptable to Malaysians.Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman took great pains to point out that the details surrounding the healthcare were still “ideas” and “proposals” and that
The beautiful mind
Malaysian Insider: FEB 7 — I recently began my nine-week placement in psychiatry, and I have really been swept away by the complexity as well as the manifestations of disease of the human mind. This article is not to teach you psychiatry, or to argue its importance in the medical profession. I just want to give you an interesting five minutes’ read, and then I hope you will put some thought into
Malaysian health reform socio-economics — David KL Quek
Malaysian Insider : FEB 7 — Is the Malaysian health system really in trouble that it requires such a drastic revolutionary change? Is 1 Care for 1 Malaysia Health Reform the answer? Will this proposed radical change make our health system more efficient and effective as touted by officials?Or, is this proposed reform too ambitious and sweeping that it could possibly lead to severe disruptions to
System needed to monitor quality of nursing grads
Star: PETALING JAYA: A comprehensive system is needed to monitor the quality of nursing graduates and ensure they remain competent years after, a non-governmental organisation said.Malaysian Society for Healthcare Delivery president Vimala Suppiah expressed worry that quality levels could be affected given the high number of nursing graduates being churned out at some private institutions.“
Health Ministry to hire graduate nurses
Star: PUTRAJAYA: The Health Ministry is working on creating vacancies at government hospitals to absorb the large number of unemployed graduate nurses.Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a special committee, led by Health director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman, had been set up to find a solution to the issue.“We are working on a programme to promote those who are already in
Mismatch between training and market needs for specialised nurses
Star: PUTRAJAYA: The number of jobless nursing graduates has reached such a state that Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has ticked off private institutions of higher learning for not being in touch with market demand.The institutions, he said, were the cause of the surplus as they have not delivered on the areas of expertise needed and thus created a mismatch between training and market
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