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Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) president Datuk Dr Thirunavukarasu Rajoo said the association supports the move but warned that Malaysia is already facing serious workforce shortages that could undermine the hospital’s effectiveness if manpower issues are not addressed alongside infrastructure development. Photo for illustration purposes only. - CANVA

An outbreak of the ebola virus has been blamed for dozens of deaths in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, African health authorities said on May 15, 2026. - (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

The Health Ministry (MOH) is looking at ways to increase the number of nurses, including through its own training institutions and the private sector, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Hanifah Hajar Taib. Photo for illustrative purposes only - Pixabay

A woman cares for her daughter at the William Soler Pediatric Cardiocenter —a beneficiary of the humanitarian aid brought by the Nuestra America flotilla from Mexico— in Havana, on March 24, 2026. - (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)

This photograph taken on April 23, 2025 shows a logo of the World Health Organisation (WHO) next to their headquarters in Geneva. - (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP)

Rachel Fournier, who has requested medical assistance in dying due to a brain tumor, gazes at framed family photos at a palliative care center in Boucherville, Quebec Province, Canada. Photo by Sebastien ST-Jean/AFP

Palestinian boys walk amid the debris of a damaged building belonging to the Ministry of Religious Endowments, which was sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City on Nov 20, 2025, a day after it was targeted by Israeli army. - (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

A displaced woman rests in Tawila, in the country's war-torn western Darfur region, on Oct 28, 2025, after fleeing El-Fasher following the city's fall to the RSF. - (Photo by AFP)

Palestinians mourn the death of loved ones killed in Israeli strikes, outside al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2025. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

On August 21, The Hill reported that at least 600 CDC employees have been cut as part of the Trump administration's spending cuts. - AFP file photo