Malaysia’s spending on healthcare falls short, says Khairy


KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is asking for public health expenditure to be increased to 5% of the gross domestic product (GDP) to ensure Malaysia has a world-standard public health system in the future, says its minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

He said for an upper middle-income country, the benchmark for public health expenditure is between 4% and 5% of the GDP.

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