Budget 2023: Public health services capacity strengthened with RM36.1bil allocation


KUALA LUMPUR: The government will continue to strengthen the capacity of public health services next year by making the Health Ministry among the recipients of the largest allocation increase in Budget 2023, amounting to RM36.1bil compared to RM32.4bil this year.

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, when tabling the Supply Bill 2023 on Friday (Oct 7), said although the country was now in the transition to endemic phase, Covid-19 was still a public threat, and therefore, in facing the future, efforts to strengthen health services will be made.

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