{"id":36148,"date":"2018-10-26T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=36148"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T06:48:56","slug":"health-ministry-puts-rm30-billion-budget-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/health-ministry-puts-rm30-billion-budget-request","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry Puts In RM30 Billion Budget Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has requested a budget of RM30 billion for the upcoming year.\u00a0Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said that this amounted to 2.01% of Malaysia&#8217;s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia&#8217;s current health budget stands at RM26.58 billion; which is at 1.87% of GDP. Of that amount, half goes into covering the needs of government hospitals. Dr Lee also said that government spending accounts for 52% of the overall health allocation. With the private sector forming the remainder 48%.<\/p>\n<p>The MOH is targeting expanding its budget to within 4% of GDP in five years. Which Dr Lee is says will bring it within the World Health Organisation&#8217;s proposal of between 3.5% and 4%.\u00a0However, this is still noticeably lower than the recommended 7% of GDP from the WHO.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare spending will not likely be a huge factor for Pakatan Harapan in Budget 2019, although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/2019-budget-wishlist-malaysians-healthcare-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">medical professionals<\/a> are still concerned about the state of public hospitals. There is a consensus that the government desperately needs to increase spending to keep up with the number of patients, but it looks like any improvements will come incrementally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/s\/1686176\/health-ministry-requests-rm30b-allocation-in-budget-2019\" target=\"_blank\">[Source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will bring government spending on healthcare to 2% of GDP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":36149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ministry Of Health Requests RM30 Billion 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