Government pursues WHO agenda in budget

Will electronic medical records become a defacto passport?

The prime minister Anwar Ibrahim during the tabling of the 2024 budget committed the government to pursuing the World Health Organization (WHO) electronic health records (HER) agenda. Anwar committed RM 150 million to enhancing the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) IT system, so health records can be digitalized.

This is at a time when many rural clinics and hospitals lack infrastructure and even basic medical equipment.

The MOH is rolling out a Clinic Management System Subscription (CCMS) and electronic medical records (EMR) in 100 clinics across the nation as a test. The objective is to then roll out digitalized medical records across the nation for every citizen.

The WHO is promoting Electronic Health Records (HER) to provide information to authorized users, through national health authorities. The WHO anticipates that the HER system will act as a defacto passport that will be able to regulate and control the travel of people in the future.

The government are supporting the new International Health Regulations (IHR) that will allow the WHO suspend the Malaysian Constitution, if the WHO declared a medical emergency for Malaysia.

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