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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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