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The Pakatan Harapan Government will increase budget allocation and will

provide incentives for the participation of private companies and charitable
bodies to tackle rare diseases, especially among the have-nots, and to help

families with special needs children.

The Pakatan Harapan Government will focus on non-communicable

diseases. These include prevention and early detection of those diseases, as

well as the provision of cancer treatment. This requires coordinated
strategies and cooperation of various sectors and levels of society, including

urban planning, public transport, and food industry legislation and so on.

More government resources will be channeled to mental health care through

government hospitals, especially in terms of human resources and also
through insurance coverage.

The Pakatan Harapan Government will also provide compulsory
pneumococcal vaccination for all children under the age of 2 years, as is the

practice in many other countries.

To ensure proper care of terminally ill patients, we will provide incentives for

the establishment of the palliative care centers across the country.

The Pakatan Harapan Government will direct the Ministry of Health to

prepare a detailed plan to solve the problems faced by younger doctors or
"housemen" who now have to wait for too long. We will review the number of

places currently available for the study of medicine so that the number of

places as well as the number of scholarships are reflective of the capacity
and future needs for medical doctors. Sponsorship to study abroad will be

given only to students attending universities that meet the appropriate

standards.

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