The Department of Health (DOH) has estimated and proposed a total of PHP 182 billion (USD 3.6 billion) for the first year of the implementation of the Universal Health Care Law. The UHC was signed into law in February 2019 while the rules and regulations were released...
Singaporean medtech company, Endofotonics, announced an investment of SGD 12 million (USD 8.6 million) from specialist healthcare investors Mr Tony Tan Choon Keat, Chairman of Singapore Medical Group (SMG) and Founding Managing Director of Parkway Holdings, and...
Trials on monkeys have been launched for a COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Thailand, after positive results were seen in mice. The vaccine is being developed by the National Vaccine Institute, the Department of Medical Science and Chulalongkorn University’s...
Beowulf Blockchain (“Beowulf”), a US-based B2B platform providing communication services via a decentralized cloud network of computing resources worldwide, has partnered with Vietnamese pharmaceutical distributor, CHAN TAN Pharma, to record drug data...
Vietnamese conglomerate, Vingroup, announced it has designed two invasive ventilator models, which are compliant with international standards, while maintaining high localization rate in design and manufacture. To address the challenge of the global scarcity of...
As COVID-19 cases surge in Indonesia, doctors are using telemedicine solutions to treat patients both at hospitals and online. Due to a lack of medical staff and protective gear, and under 4,000 hospital beds for seriously ill COVID-19 patients in an archipelago of...
A growing number of Malaysian companies reportedly are venturing into medical supplies manufacturing, following the rapid surge in demand from domestic and global communities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This occurrence is expected to continue for longer term, with...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the Philippines announced that it has submitted a proposal for a creation of virology institute in the Philippines. The institute will be called Virology Science and Technology Institute of the Philippines (VIP). The...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted not only a shortage of ventilators but also an enormous strain on healthcare professionals managing many ventilators at once. Medtech startup ABMis attempting to address this issue through the development of BiWaze ION, describing...
China’s Huawei Technologies and the Thai Ministry of Digital Economy and Society and have revealed plans to provide Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions and 5G technology to Siriraj Public Hospital in the fight against Covid-19. According to the Dean at the...
The Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology has formed a consortium of local research institutions and universities to tackle the rising number of COVID-19 in the country. The parties will collaborate on identifying compounds that can inhibit the spread of the...
In April 2020, the Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several online health services companies for its “Online Appointment” and “Webinar for COVID-19” initiatives. These initiatives aim to lessen the volume of patients at...
