PETALING JAYA: Long after the Covid-19 threat has been contained, unregistered medical devices such as facemasks, test kits, examination gloves and oximeters continue to be openly sold in the market.
Malaysia has established itself as one of the world's top offshore manufacturing hubs for medical devices, with close to 300 medical device manufacturing companies undertaking a variety of activities ranging from regional headquarters and manufacturing to research and development (R&D).
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, has today announced the expansion of its global manufacturing facility in Kuala
PETALING JAYA: Despite the national lockdown since June 1, the spread of Covid-19 at the workplace, mainly involving factory workers, continues to dominate cases linked to clusters.
GEORGE TOWN: The manufacturing sector in Penang hopes the Federal government will expedite the rollout of the mass vaccination programme for economic frontliners once the new batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrives in Malaysia, expected in June.
Special investment adviser to the Chief Minister of Penang Datuk Lee Kah Choon said several manufacturing associations had already been preparing the groundwork to implement mass vaccination programmes for industrial workers.
He said that coordinated means under the public-private partnership immunisation model was needed in order to effectively streamline the mass vaccination for the economic frontliners and achieve herd immunity. With Penang as one of the top foreign direct investment recipients among Malaysian states, we hope that the Federal government can expedite the mass vaccination programme rollout for our employees once the new batch of vaccines arrives in Malaysia,” he said in a virtual press conference here, today