Proposed amendments to provide protection to those who report acts of corruption must be passed as soon as possible. It has taken too long already.

IT has been over 50 days since Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad returned to helm the Health Ministry, and the to-do list is long. The expectations are high as he returns at a time where healthcare reforms are needed more than ever, especially with legacy issues that have been simmering over four changes of government.

MALAYSIA may have just missed a chance to become one of the first countries to eradicate smoking among the future generation of Malaysians.

Ministry has a three-day window in which to table and pass the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill in current Dewan Rakyat sitting.

Debating the A-G’s reports in Parliament is one way to strengthen accountability and transparency.

THE controversial Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project, now reduced by one ship to five and at a higher cost, remains in stormy waters.

It is time that the government do right by the people of Kelantan.

It begins when we start normalising and trivialising such behaviour as jokes, sometimes even blaming the victim for being unable to see the humour.

THE contract doctors, whose list of problems is long, just want permanent jobs to assure them of security; the government, on the other hand, has to worry about its hefty wage bill and the pension bill.

IT was touted as a “paralysis” of the healthcare system, but in the end the Mogok Doktor Malaysia’s Black Monday campaign ended up stillborn.

ONE woman goes to the hospital for treatment, another to a government office and the third goes to lodge a police report – all three get barred from entering the building, just because someone thinks they are not dressed decently enough.

AFTER repeated calls and demands, Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa is ready to meet disgruntled doctors at a town hall session today.