Budget 2019: Health services get RM2bil increase in allocation, enjoying largest share of budget

By MEI MEI CHU
  • Nation

  • Friday, 02 Nov 2018

PETALING JAYA: The Budget 2019 allocation for health services will increase to RM29bil from last year's allocation of RM27bil.

This is a 7.8%, or RM2bil, increase from Budget 2018, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said during the tabling of Budget 2019 in Parliament on Friday (Nov 2).

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