Year-End Round-Up Part 5: Cost of Medicine

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31-Dec-15 16:00

Year-End Round-Up Part 5: Cost of Medicine

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On the last part of our year-end round-up series, we feature all stories about the rising cost of healthcare, GST and TPPA amid the economic turmoil this year. With Dr George Lee (Consultant Urologist), Dr Krishna Kumar (Past-President of Malaysian Medical Association), Prof Richard Gold (McGill University), Sharon Palani (Medico Legal Practitioner), Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr Haji Mohd Ismail Merican (Former Director-General of Health), Dr Ashok Philip (President of the Malaysian Medical Association), Prof Dato' Dr Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed (Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research), Fifa Rahman (Malaysian AIDS Council) and Prof Dr Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy (Cancer Epidemiologist).

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