A study for the World Health Organisation has provided evidence of how the gap between the rich and the poor affects individual and collective mental health. It shows how the gap causes psychological and physiological changes that affect the mental health of individuals. The report also argues that the mental health component is important in [...]
Photo by a concerned Penangite
A concerned Penangite spotted this banner at a private clinic along Burma Road, openly advertising a vaccine against “women’s cancer”. She called up the clinic and was told the vaccine would be delivered in three doses over a six-month period, RM250 each dose, total RM750. The vaccine is Gardasil (supposed to [...]
Business Times reports that Sime Darby Healthcare, the healthcare arm of Sime Darby, has teamed up with Medilink Network (PVT) Ltd of Bangladesh and Medilink (Beijing) TPA Services Co Ltd to promote medical travel from Bangladesh and China to Malaysia.
The expansion of lucrative, profit-oriented medical tourism will hurt the government-owned general hospitals, which are already [...]
It is disconcerting to see neoliberals in both Pakatan and the BN whole-heartedly welcoming Najib’s liberalisation of services. The DAP, MCA and Gerakan want liberalisation to be extended to other sectors; the MCA even mentioned national security and defence.
No one is saying there shouldn’t be competition in certain sectors. But we are proceeding with liberalisation [...]
Here are some links you might find interesting today:
People’s hope in the judiciary misplaced - by P Ramakrishnan
Complaint to the MMC regarding the Serdang Hospital pathologist - by Andrew Aeria
Penang NGO working group reports as submitted to Guan Eng - by Penang Forum
Forum on ‘Hidden cameras: The politics of gender and public morality’ tomorrow (Saturday) [...]
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