THE proposal by Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun to include health as one of eight new parliamentary select committees (PSC) in Parliament to monitor government ministries is a welcome and vital move for the future of Malaysian healthcare.
With health usually making up the third largest allocation and comprising around 10% of the overall Federal Government budget, and now with the billions of ringgit spent on our response to the Covid-19 pandemic, having a separate PSC on this issue is necessary.
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