Streamline approval process to combat medicine shortage, govt urged

The Malaysian Health Coalition (MHC) has urged the government to streamline the approval process for medicines requiring special authorisation at the Health Ministry facilities.

To overcome medicine shortages, the MHC also called for the strengthening of local manufacturing capacity for medicines and the improvement of the collaboration between public and private sectors through medicine stock loans and medicine utilisation data-sharing.

“Alternate suppliers and special authorisation...