Press Statement
MAY 2025 – PRESS STATEMENT
27 MAY 2025 – MMA calls for clear legal framework on medicine price display
UALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has urged the government to act swiftly on issues affecting private general practitioners (GPs), stressing the need for clear legal frameworks and…
27 MAY 2025 – De-Gazette Clinics From Act 723 After Moving Drug Price Display Mandate — Malaysian Medical Association
MMA urges the government to degazette medical clinics from the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011 (Act 723) once the medicine price display policy is shifted from Act 723 to the Private Healthcare Facilities & Services Act 1998 (Act 586).
16 MAY 2025 – ‘Put health before profit’
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has called for a total ban on vaping and e-cigarette products to safeguard public health.
16 MAY 2025 – MMA calls for nationwide ban on vaping, e-cigarettes
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has called for a total ban on vaping and e-cigarette products to safeguard public health.
16 MAY 2025 – Ban sale of vapes nationwide, doctors urge govt
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Medical Association has urged the government to impose a nationwide ban on the sale of vapes and e-cigarettes, commending four states for implementing prohibitions on their own.
16 MAY 2025 – Impose Nationwide Ban On Vape And E-Cigarettes — Malaysian Medical Association
The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is calling for a total nationwide ban on vaping and e-cigarette products. Given the well-documented harmful — and potentially fatal — health effects, the high risk of abuse, their addictive nature, and the significant health care costs associated with treating conditions such as e-cigarette or vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI),…
9 MAY 2025 – Amend Act 586 If Needed For Drug Price Display — Malaysian Medical Association
MMA moots amendments to Act 586 if necessary to mandate drug price display, instead of using Act 723. MMA reiterates that doctors are not against price transparency, but only the use of Act 723 on the medical profession. MMA says again it wasn’t engaged.
7 MAY 2025 – Price Control Act will not disrupt GPs’ operations, says MOH
THE Ministry of Health (MOH) assures that the Price Control and Anti-profiteering Act 2011 (Act 723) will not disrupt the operations of general practitioners (GP) in the private sector but will promote transparency and affordability in healthcare.
7 MAY 2025 – Malaysian GPs rally against lack of consultation on new drug-price display law, call for fee review
PUTRAJAYA – Hundreds of Malaysian general practitioners (GPs) gathered in the administrative capital of Putrajaya on May 6 to protest against a new government directive requiring the mandatory display of drug prices that the medical sector says was done without consulting them.
6 MAY 2025 – Doctors Hold Historic Protest Against KPDN’s Jurisdiction Over Drug Price Display
PUTRAJAYA, May 6 — More than 700 doctors held an historic demonstration today against the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry’s (KPDN) jurisdiction over a medicine price display mandate.
4 MAY 2025 – ‘We oppose the Act, not price labelling,’ says MMA ahead of Tuesday’s protest
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) said doctors were not against medicine price transparency, but disagreed with the usage of the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011 (Act 723) on the recently implemented mandatory price labelling initiative.
4 MAY 2025 – ‘Not against transparency, but against Act 723’: MMA confirms private doctors’ march on Tuesday
PUTRAJAYA, May 4 — The Malaysian Medical Association’s (MMA) today said that it has submitted to authorities the necessary documents for its protest walk scheduled on May 6 in Putrajaya.
3 MAY 2025 – Doctors’ march against price display law to go ahead
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) will proceed with the planned march by private general practitioners (GPs) in protest against the mandatory price labelling initiative.
1 MAY 2025 – ‘Betrayed’ Doctors To March Against Drug Price Display
KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 — The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is organising a march next Tuesday to protest against a medicine price display mandate that came into effect today
1 MAY 2025 – Claiming ‘betrayal’, doctors plan May 6 Putrajaya march against drug pricing law they say raises costs
KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 — The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) will hold a protest march from the Health Ministry to the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya next Tuesday.