Press Statement
MAY 2025 – PRESS STATEMENT
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.