So, the cat’s out of the bag! One in two Malaysians are obese. A fifth have diabetes. A third have raised blood pressure (NHMS 2019). While the public health doctor in me would like to begin preaching statistics about how poorly Malaysians are doing and how we could do better as a country, the mother…
As a mother of three young children and a public health doctor as well, the first reported case of polio shocked me. We have not had a polio case in Malaysia for 28 years. Just weeks after the first reported case, we hear the devastating news of two more unvaccinated children falling ill due to…
The following article was authored by Dr Feisul Idzwan Mustapha and Dr Arunah Chandran for the conference, “The promise of digital health to address non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries” which was convened by Wilton Park on 25 to 27 November 2019 and published in Infomed Malaysia, Issue 32, Jan- March 2020. Introduction “With…
By empowering family members of people living with diabetes, we hope to create a better supportive environment to improve the quality of life of both the patient and the family as a whole
