THE Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy welcomes the appointment of Khairy Jamaluddin as Malaysia’s 23rd Health Minister. Khairy’s appointment and the return of Datuk Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali and Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang as Deputy Health Ministers, comes at a crucial time for Malaysia – a make or break moment.
We look forward to Khairy bringing the same focus and determination to succeed that he brought to the Covid-19 vaccination effort, to address some of the complex issues which confront Malaysian healthcare. For now, we would like to call on Khairy to support the following: