Health White Paper: Govt to set up National Disease Control Centre

By RAHIMY RAHIM, RAGANANTHINI VETHASALAM, GERARD GIMINO and TEH ATHIRA YUSOF

KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry is planning to form a National Disease Control Centre to prepare the country in the event of a health crisis, according to the Health White Paper.

The White Paper, which was released on Tuesday (June 13), read that such a disease control centre would be one of the initiatives to strengthen the public health network.

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