PUBLIC health is a beautiful profession.

HEALTH professionals are in the news this month not for Covid-19 reasons, but for their employment contracts.

To ensure that the National Recovery Plan moves swiftly, we all need to do what we can individually.

Doctors sometimes have to make personal sacrifices to help patients heal

MORE than two billion people have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine since public vaccination programmes started worldwide.

THE doctors, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) of Malaysia are burning out.

THIS week, we restart the Vital Signs column, which was previously online only and on hiatus for the last year as this author focused on other projects and priorities in public health.

This last Vital Signs column takes a look at the lessons we (hopefully) take away from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Over the next one week, we need to focus on obtaining more clinical equipment, mass testing and utilising more public health expertise in decision-making.

Every Malaysian can help play a role in the war against Covid-19, including experts in 3D printing, engineering and material science.

The effectiveness of the movement control order relies on all Malaysians making the effort to follow it.

With a new minister and two deputies appointed to the Health portfolio, here are some important areas for them to pay attention to.