“The cost of this cut will be paid in delayed procedures, longer waiting lists, medicine shortages, deteriorating facilities, exhausted healthcare workers, avoidable complications, and preventable deaths.”

- Galen Centre chief executive Azrul Khalib

COMMENT | The proposed reduction of the healthcare budget by Madani because of the so-called austerity drive due to the conflict in West Asia perpetrated by Tel Aviv and Washington is the kind of news item that gets lost in the mendacious games of our political elites.

I have no idea which genius in Putrajaya thought it was a good idea in these times to mess with the healthcare budget.

In a time when...