“If you ask me as the Health Minister, the RM2.50 and RM3 spending for Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan, respectively, is insufficient to foot expenditure for raw goods under the menu that we have prepared,” he said after launching Hematogenix Malaysia, Asia-Pacific’s first central clinical oncology research laboratory yesterday.
“The allocation has to be increased, otherwise children are not getting the required nutrition at schools,” he said, adding that he would be raising a proposal to the Cabinet to ensure that full subsidy continues to be given to children from hardcore poor families.Part of the subsidy is also given to children from other household groups to curb malnutrition.
He said the laboratory provides added value to the MOH because it can be used for diagnostic purposes and cancer screening in Malaysia, in addition to handling samples from clinical research conducted in the country. On the buffer stock of government medicines that is managed by Pharmaniaga Bhd, Khairy said it has been distributed to private clinics since yesterday following the shortage of certain medicines in the market.
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