A GP checks her patients blood pressure in this filepic. GPs in private practice, via their medical associations, have decided not to participate in the PeKA programme.
Two national health insurance schemes – Skim Perlindungan Nasional B40 (MySalam) and Skim Perlindungan Kesihatan (PeKa) – were launched in January 2019.
Their objectives are to provide insurance for the B40 (bottom 40%) household income group in the event they develop 36 critical illnesses in the former, and the screening of a projected 800,000 of B40 Malaysians aged 50 years and above for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the latter.
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