His image has been likened to a fictional wizard professor and a ruthless dictator, but for many Malaysians, Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is their “superhero”, leading medical frontliners in the war against Covid-19.

On his 57th birthday today, netizens took to social media with an outpouring of creative well-wishes, and #HappyBirthdayDGHisham trended on Twitter with close to 8,000 tweets.