Concerns over medical inflation

Health Ministry's Yap said the proposed central database will help facilitate and create a standard for both private and public hospitals.

KUALA LUMPUR: The advancement of technology, combined with an ageing society and higher expectations of healthcare, is fanning medical inflation and its rising costs is real.

The Health Ministry’s Health Transformation Unit chief executive officer Dr Yap Wei Aun said despite technological innovation helping people to live longer, it comes with a price.