{"id":987522201,"date":"2021-11-12T03:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-is-second-largest-in-2022-budget-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:53:22","slug":"health-is-second-largest-in-2022-budget-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-is-second-largest-in-2022-budget-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Health is second largest in 2022 budget in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>In Malaysia, the government has&nbsp;allocated RM32.4bil to the Health Ministry, which is the second largest allocation. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The additional budget has been allocated as follows:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span>RM4bil has been allocated for COVID-19 management, including the national vaccination program.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span>RM2bil has been provided to enhance the capacity of the public health facilities (e.g., medicines, health kits, and personal protective equipment).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span><span>In addition, the government has signed a purchase agreement for 88 million doses of vaccine, aiming to provide the booster shot to those aged above 12 years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Meanwhile, tax deduction is planned to apply for self-funded COVID-19 booster shot and health check-up. To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2021\/10\/29\/budget-2022-rm324bil-allocated-for-health\">click<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Source: The Star<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Picture by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/423602\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ar130405<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixabay.com\/photos\/2082630\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Malaysia, the government has&nbsp;allocated RM32.4bil to the Health Ministry, which is the second largest allocation. The additional budget has been allocated as follows: RM4bil has been allocated for COVID-19 management, including the national vaccination program. RM2bil has been provided to enhance the capacity of the public health facilities (e.g., medicines, health kits, and personal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}