PETALING JAYA: Malaysia annually “loses” over 200,000 potential productive years due to the premature deaths of employees with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), a study showed.
Findings from a report by the Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation (WHO) calculated that the workers who died prematurely due to NCDs in the year studied could have contributed a further 201,185 years in the workforce.
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