THE Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy joins Deputy Health Minister Datuk Lukanisman Awang Sauni’s recent call for increased attention and commitment to prevent and reduce the spread of diabetes in Malaysia. As such, the Galen Centre calls for removal of sugar as a gazetted item under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act to bolster preventive health efforts and harmonise policies which directly impact the well-being of Malaysians.
Malaysia currently has one of the lowest sugar prices in the world. They are lower than those in sugar-producing countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. This has a direct implication for the continued and uncontrolled spread of diabetes in this country, causing cardio-renal-metabolic diseases such as chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, which bring about premature death.
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