Malaysia committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage, says Dr Dzulkefly

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to overcome the challenges of achieving universal health coverage , says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

focussing on implementing Enhanced Primary Health Care programmes that will address increasing non-communicable diseases and mental health cases.

"Malaysia shall continue to do whatever it takes to deliver high quality healthcare to all its people, and to reach out to each one of them. However, its out of pocket expenditure stood at 38% in 2018 although the WHO recommends that the OOP expenditure should be at around 20%, he said. Dr Dzulkefly said Malaysia will also enhance data quality and carry out data analytics on the available health indicators by utilising its centralised data storage system, MyHealth Data Warehouse .

 

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I don't trust him. His eyes are too close together.

Universal Education Coverage? Yesss please~~!! Remember, 'Universal' starts with U & I :)

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