Malaysia's healthcare system is at a crossroads

The Malaysian health system faces new challenges in the face of rapidly evolving demographic and epidemiological transitions. — AFP

Malaysia subscribes to the World Health Organization’s priority objective of universal health coverage (UHC), which has been defined as “ensuring that all people have access to needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that people do not suffer financial hardship when paying for these services”.

Malaysia has UHC. However, some of the recent studies of the healthcare system’s performance raises concerns.