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The Deputy Director-General of Health                                                                 (Research & Technical Support)





               Constantly seeking the truth in a
               sea of noise is what research is.



               The Ivermectin Treatment
               Efficacy in COVID-19 High-Risk
               Patients (I-TECH) Study on
               Ivermectin has brought to light
               that a touted miracle drug was
               created without proper
               investigation and false assurance

               can mislead and cause more
               harm in misguided efforts to
               improve the chaos.


               Communication between MOH
               and the public can be                                                                                 Source: NIH Collection
               challenging as we are not only
               dealing with an invisible virus.                                                                      Together, I believe we will finally come into the endemic phase and adapt
               False, misleading headlines                                                                           to the new normal.

               constantly flood social media
               channels, and raises disputes and            Research must be for the greater
               questions from the public.                    good of humanity. So when you
               Thanks to solidarity among MOH              leave this world you can say ‘God, I
               team members, these issues are                 did my best and it is time for
               addressed effectively. Kudos!
                                                                   others to take over’


               The public will learn how to
               discern and assess rightly, as we         - Datuk Dr. Hishamshah bin Mohd Ibrahim    §                                                       Datuk Dr. Hishamshah bin Mohd Ibrahim
               continue to grow in this period of                                                                                                           Deputy Director-General of Health
               turmoil.                                                                                                                                     (Research & Technical Support)
                                                                                                                                                            Ministry of Health Malaysia



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