By right, we should be placing more emphasis on the operating budget, since it takes up 93.1% (RM 24.7 billion), a lion’s share of the total MOH budget. Over half, or 60.9%, of the operating budget is reserved for the salaries and wages for a workforce of 268,014 in total. The number of positions in the Health Ministry has increased by 30.2% from 2010-2018, while the amount paid for emoluments in 2018 has risen 144.6% compared to 2010 . The health workforce is crucial in ensuring high standards of healthcare delivery, but this rise is only justifiable if the emolument rise converts to higher pay to retain quality talent.

Cut back on funding for supplies and services

Departments under the Medical Care (Perubatan) category will receive the largest amount RM13.2 billion, or a 53.4% of the total operating budget, followed by the Public Health (Kesihatan Awam) category (RM4.7 billion or 19.1%) (Figure 2). Worryingly, although the total sum of allocations for these two categories has increased compared to 2017, most of it is channelled towards emolument. Despite the functional importance of these two categories, the government has opted to cut back on funding for supplies and services for both categories (Figure 3). For Medical Care, the allocation for supplies and services shrank from RM5.17 billion in 2015 to RM3.92 billion in 2018, a difference of RM1.26 billion!

if no doctors wanna work who gonna dispense the medicine? bomoh?

those position are not necessary doctors lol

probably most is non medical personnel
for example photocopy machine supervisor
lol

no money for medicine, education.....but can do augmented reality

tell all patients to vote oppo

The noble system is taxed by majority rakyats who dont seem to care about their own health... poor lifestyle choices and all. Campaign on eating right, anti-smokings/alcohol and pro-exercises failed to convert them. Just look at streets around us and the condition and habits of a typical Malaysian adult.

The victims are those poor rakyats with chronic disease due to their poor genes/birth defects    despite trying to be healthy.. still succumb to needing medical assistance till they die.

Just remove free medicine and ask patients to pay for their own medicine.
Janji bijan kaya

Yes true. Some countries like usa, doctors only give u prescriptions. You have to go to pharmacy to buy the ubat.

My friend work in hospital,

it is constantly lack of doctors and nurses.

What he/she said alot of time the patient are foreigners, but they have to pay full amount.

Imagine the amount of time spent treating the foreigners, instead of us Malaysian, hence the lacking of medical staff was not cause by surge on Malaysian population, but increasing of foreigners

cannot be lei
The number of positions in the Health Ministry has increased by 30.2% 
so those new positions are not medical staff lol

yes bajet meningkat, what the fella need to show is how much is allocated for medicine alone. that would create more impact and shut other fellas up for sure. sendiri pun tak baca penuh nak lecture orang.

collect GST but still no money. how ?

Good move. Just prescribe the medicine and patients should go buy it at a pharmacy.

Summary ts butthurt doc earn better.

Govt hospitals give medicine stamps to these people and then use the stamps in pharmacy.

i think is logical and smart...
no doctor, you die, dont need give medicine and treatment, save cost...

we need that budget for other areas