Malaysia's 2022 Budget aims to focus on 3 areas - recovery, resilience and driving reforms. Here are three takeaways from the budget that was tabled on Friday.
Here are the three takeaways we get from the 2022 Budget tabled by yesterday:Malaysia’s healthcare system was severely stretched during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with public hospitals running out of beds, personal protective equipment and oxygen tanks.second-highest allocation
Despite the amount, several healthcare observers noted that the increase may be too little to address a systemic shortcoming. “It gives the wrong impression that despite the crisis that Malaysians have endured over the past 22 months, somehow health needs and service delivery remain the same.” the allocations for health is not addressing the structural changes needed in the areas.
Contract doctors, who had staged a walkout after years of being sidelined and not receiving equal pay as their permanent counterparts, also were only given a Putrajaya said it expects to receive RM234 billion in federal revenue to fund the RM332 billion Budget.
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