SAMARAHAN: The Medical Device Authority (MDA) will help the state government to make technical evaluations and allow COVID-19 screening products to enter the market.
Public Health, Housing and Local Government Deputy Minister Michael Tiang Ming Tee said the role of the agency, which has been operating for 10 years now, was to ensure that the safety and health of medical devices were constantly monitored and controlled.
He appealed to government agencies, private sector, government-linked corporations (GLCs), institutions of higher learning and the public to work together and support MDA’s effort.
“MDA is in effort to boost public awareness programmes to ensure that these groups are given a clear explanation about how to use medical devices in accordance with the Instruction of Use (IFU), how to choose registered medical devices with the MDA, and what the MDA’s role in the regulatory control of medical devices in Malaysia is.
“This also ensures that the people choose MDA-registered devices to ensure the safety and effectiveness of not harming themselves, their families and the community,” he said when officiating at the Endemic Phase Medical Device Control Programme at the Sarawak Heart Centre here, today.
The MDA, he said, would continue to strengthen efforts to raise awareness among Malaysians so that health issues, especially related to devices, were understood by the public.
MDA is an agency under the Ministry of Health Malaysia, established under the Medical Device Authority Act 2012 (Act 738).
The Act is to enforce and implement the medical device regulatory framework under the Medical Device Act 2012 (Act 737).
