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Day: May 21, 2021

Urgent need for medicines to treat COVID-19 – A comprehensive waiver is needed

  We the undersigned organisations and patient advocacy groups strongly welcome YAB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s keynote address at the Nikkei 26th International Conference on The Future of Asia on 20 May 2021. We applaud him for this transformative call: “To prepare for a long century of recurring health emergencies – the temporary IP suspension must give way to a total transformation...
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Offer amnesty and vaccinate elderly residents in unlicensed old folks’ homes

In dire times like these, the government should grant amnesty to unlicensed old folks’ homes for every employee and resident access to Covid-19 vaccination. The registered ones are licensed by various authorities, such as local governments. It is shocking that out of the 1,300 unlicensed facilities, only about 100 of them have their staff and residents registered for vaccination, constituting...
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LACK OF POLICY COHERENCE IN PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY

  22nd May is the International Day for Biological Diversity. Malaysia, is a party to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and is one of the most megadiverse countries, ranking 12th in the world, according to the National Biodiversity Index, that is based on estimates of the country’s richness and endemism in relation to some classes of plants and animals. If we are proud of this...
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