MMA advises public against panic-buying medicines as supplies run low


The Malaysian Medical Health Association says the supply of other previously unaffected medications could become disrupted if the current supply-and-demand situation of pharmaceuticals is not corrected. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 2, 2022.

THE Malaysian Medical Association has advised the public against panic buying medicines as there has been a shortage of certain medicines in the market recently, its president Dr Koh Kar Chai said. 

“An advice to the public is not to panic buy and unnecessarily hoard medications which are not immediately needed, to avoid aggravating the situation,” he said in a statement. 


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