Supporting healthcare innovation helps ensure that there is motivation and incentive into the treatment of less common ailments such as rare diseases. People with these diseases should not be left behind.
Investing in digital solutions could dramatically improve productivity and efficiency, with benefits in both patient outcomes and cost.
Malaysia has one of the highest gender step gap out of 46 countries observed, ranking third place in high activity inequality between genders (just below Saudi Arabia and Qatar).
Malaysian progress and achievements in encouraging, cultivating and boosting home-grown innovation are also at risk.
We need to discuss how we can move forward, address concerns related to intellectual property protections, and support the government’s agenda of ongoing national healthcare reform.
Influencing what people buy by making healthy food options more affordable to increase their consumption has been shown to be the most effective policy.
When responding to the children and young people who suffer from inhalant addiction and dependency, let us first do no harm.
“By not considering potential variables that contribute to transgressions or non-compliance, it punishes an already vulnerable community for something that may not have been avoidable, of their fault or ability to control. It is a recipe to drive people to the brink.”
There is cause for concern as an insufficient allocation could result in shortages of essential drugs.
A national health insurance scheme could be a game changer to catapult the entirety of Malaysian healthcare into the 21st century, rather than piecemeal, as it is today.
Chief Executive, Galen Centre