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NEWS ARCHIVE, YEAR 2020

January
09 Jan 2020 – NKF: Traditional concept has affected organ donation; Even if the donor has signed the consent form, it may still be blocked by the family (Sin Chew Daily)
14 Jan 2020 – Spreading Joy (New Straits Times)
18 Jan 2020 – MUIS received RM200,000 donation – A mention of their partnership with NKF (Daily Express Sabah)
19 Jan 2020 – Eat like a rat (The Star)
21 Jan 2020 – NKF Haemodialysis Center received RM40,000 appropriation from Tan Kok Wai (China Press)
21 Jan 2020 – Tan Kok Wai service centre allocate RM40k to National Kidney Foundation (Nanyang Siang Pau)
21 Jan 2020 – Tan Kok Wai: Malaysia increases 700 kidney patients every year, poor households can hardly afford medical expenses (Sin Chew Daily)
24 Jan 2020 – RM40, 000 aid for two Cheras dialysis centres (The Star)
29 Jan 2020 – Lifting the spirits of dialysis patients (The Health)
30 Jan 2020 – Apply for special aid for treatment, kidney patients in state told (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
30 Jan 2020 – Sarikei to have additional haemodialysis centre (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
30 Jan 2020 – Sarikei to have additional haemodialysis centre (The Borneo Post Sabah)
30 Jan 2020 – Mohonlah Bantuan Khas Pesakit Buah Pinggang (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)
30 Jan 2020 – NKF akan membuka pusat hemodialisis di Sarikei (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)
30 Jan 2020 – NKF akan membuka pusat hemodialisis di Sarikei (Utusan Borneo Sabah)
30 Jan 2020 – Rise in young kidney patients (New Sarawak Tribune)
30 Jan 2020 – 250 new kidney dialysis patients yearly (New Sarawak Tribune)
30 Jan 2020 – Pesakit buah pinggang semakin meningkat (Utusan Sarawak)
30 Jan 2020 – Mohonlah bantuan khas pesakit buah pinggang (Utusan Borneo Sabah)
30 Jan 2020 – Subsidi untuk pesakit buah pinggang (Utusan Sarawak)

February
05 Feb 2020 – National Kidney Foundation of Malaysia has around 1,700 patients and expected need RM26.5mil funds by this year (China Press)
18 Feb 2020 – Fun Run (The Star)
19 Feb 2020 – NKF, Grab support dialysis patients (The Malaysian Reserve)
19 Feb 2020 – Grab and NKF jointly raise funds to buy dialysis equipments (China Press)
20 Feb 2020 – Lee Thiam Wah’s mother passed away ; save RM1.02 million and donate to charity (Sin Chew Daily)
22 Feb 2020 – Kidney Health (The Star)
28Feb 2020 – Kidney Health (The Star)

March
01 March 2020 – Ng Suee Lim: There may be a change in the seat of the state assembly, but there will be no change in the Selangor state council (China Press)
01 March 2020 – Ng Suee Lim: Selangor state govt may change if there are changes with central government’s situation (Guang Ming Daily)
01 March 2020 – Ng Suee Lim : Azmin changes to opposition party seat; Selangor hopes federal government maintains current state (Nanyang Siang Pau)
01 March 2020 – Ng Suee Lim: May be affected by federal political situation; Selangor state government to maintain current status (Sin Chew Daily)
02 March 2020 – Fun Run And Walk (The Star)
05 March 2020 – Health Run (The Star)
07 March 2020 – Health Run (The Star)
07 March 2020 – Donate reward points for kidney patients benefit (The Star)
09 March 2020 – Health Run (The Star)
10 March 2020 – Health Run (The Star)
11 March 2020 – Event Postponed (The Star)
12 March 2020 – Events Postponed (The Star)
14 March 2020 – Events Postponed (The Star)
16 March 2020 – Events Postponed (The Star)
16 March 2020 – Organisers call off events as precaution against Covid-19 (The Star)
18 March 2020 – A Legacy of Love (The Sun)
20 March 2020 – National Kidney Foundation takes strict measures to ensure dialysis patients’ safety amid Covid-19 outbreak (Malay Mail – Online)
21 March 2020 – Lottus Carter suffers from kidney failure for 10 years, luckly his brother donated a kidney to regenerate him (Guang Ming Daily)
22 March 2020 – Grab, NKF Raising $ For Dialysis Machine (Daily Express Sabah)
27 March 2020 – Grab and NKF to help patients with kidney disease, people can convert Grab points to donate NKF (Sin Chew Daily)
29 March 2020 – 2 kidney dialysis centres in Penang operate as usual; Not affected by the outbreak (Kwong Wah Yit Poh)

April
05 April 2020 – Protecting patients, testing body temperature and limiting guests; Haemodialysis centres on high alert in fight against Covid-19 (Nanyang Siang Pau)
07 April 2020 – Donate to the needy with T’nG eWallet (The Star)
14 April 2020 – Donation from The Federation Of Chinese Association Kuching, Samarahan & Serian Division (See Hua Daily – Sarawak)
25 April 2020 – Nkf received RM300000 of medical supplies and donations (China Press)
25 April 2020 – National Kidney Foundation: 2.9 million patients were affected during the pandemic (Guang Ming Daily)
25 April 2020 – NKF: Thank you for donating PPE from all walks of life to protect medical staff (Sin Chew Daily)
25 April 2020 – NKF ambil langkah lindungi petugas barisan hadapan (Utusan Borneo Sabah)
25 April 2020 – NKF ambil langkah lindungi petugas barisan hadapan (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)
25 April 2020 – Kidney foundation taking steps to safeguard frontliners’ wellbeing (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
25 April 2020 – More protection for frontliners (New Sarawak Tribune)
28 April 2020 – Safeguarding well-being of frontline healthcare personnel (The Star)

May
04 May 2020 – Safeguarding well-being of dialysis centres personnel (The Star)
05 May 2020 – Shanghai Qiaolian gave donations to the frontliners through the help of the Chinese Association (China Press)
05 May 2020 – Huazong pass the donation supplies from Shanghai federation of overseas Chinese to frontliners (Sin Chew Daily)
05 May 2020 – National Kidney Foundation provides RM1 million financial assistance for its dialysis patients (Online – Malaysian Business)
06 May 2020 – National kidney foundation donated nearly RM1million to kidney dialysis patients (China Press)
06 May 2020 – NFK donated RM1 million; Eligible patients will receive RM600 aids (Sin Chew Daily)
06 May 2020 – NKF donates nearly RM1mil to 1712 patients (Guang Ming Daily – Northern)
06 May 2020 – National Kidney Foundation pledges financial aid to aid economically impacted patients (Online – Business Today)
08 May 2020 – National Kidney Foundation; donated nearly RM1million to 1712 patients (Guang Ming Daily)
09 May 2020 – RM1mil aid for kidney patients (The Star)
29 May 2020 – Platform dana pesakit buah pinggang (Harian metro)
29 May 2020 – ‘Hero Float’ to honour frontliners (New Straits Times – Online)

June
01 June 2020 – Use Your Grab Points For A Good Cause (Health Today)
03 June 2020 – Tie-up enables e-wallet users to help kidney patients (The Star)
16 June 2020 – Zaki Morad : NKF Malaysia promises to quickly provide treatment for patients (China Press)
16 June 2020 – National Kidney Foundation donates medical supplies (New Straits Times)
16 June 2020 – NKF sumbang bekalan perubatan untuk pesakit kegagalan buah pinggang (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)
16 June 2020 – NKF sumbang bekalan perubatan untuk pesakit kegagalan buah pinggang (Utusan Borneo Sabah)
16 June 2020 – NKF donates medical supplies to MoH (New Sarawak Tribune)
17 June 2020 – Unite to spread love together to against pandemic (Sin Chew Daily)
18 June 2020 – Going beyond call of duty for kidney health (The Star)

July
01 July 2020 – Carpe Ri offers free ice cream fundraising to the frontliners (China Press)
12 July 2020 – We will keep on duty, you all can hemodialysis with no worries (Sin Chew Daily)
13 July 2020 – Frozen dessert tribute to healthcare workers (The Star)
25 July 2020 – Hero Float Campaign (New Straits Times)

August
09 August 2020 – A campaign for frontliners and NKF (The Star)
10 August 2020 – School raises RM13,400 for kidney foundation (The Star)
16 August 2020 – Number of organ donors must be increased (Tamil Malar)
17 August 2020 – Number of organ donors not enough (Malaysia Nanban)
18 August 2020 – Cool Tribute (New Straits Times)
18 August 2020 – Charity, love, sympathy, scam (Sin Chew Daily)
28 August 2020 – NKF organises another mooncake charity project, support welcomed (Sin Chew Daily)

September
13 September 2020 – Mooncakes for a good cause (The Star)
20 September 2020 – Buy Oversea mooncakes, fundraising for NKF (Sin Chew Daily – Supplement)

October
07 October 2020 – Sharing costs to treat B40 kidney patients with anaemia (The Star)
28 October 2020 – Dialysis centre in Kuching receives PPE donated by Bintulu Port Holdings (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
28 October 2020 – BPHB sumbang PPE kepada pusat Dialisis NKF KAS/ Rotary (Utusan Borneo Sabah)

November
04 November 2020 – Organ Donation (The Star)
07 November 2020 – Organ Donation (The Star)
09 November 2020 – Program bantu pesakit buah pinggang kronik kumpulan B40 (Harian Metro)

12 November 2020 – NKF to build Haemodialysis faility in Samarahan (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
12 November 2020 – University Hospital For Kota Samarahan (New Sarawak Tribune)
12 November 2020 – Hospital Universiti UNIMAS sepenuhnya dimanfaatkan (Utusan Sarawak)
12 November 2020 – Sarawak govt assists SMEs through BKSS packages (New Sabah Times)
19 November 2020 – AXA Affin General Insurance Berhad virtual charity run, 1,200 people responded and signed up (China Press)
24 November 2020 – Shining a spotlight on organ transplant and donation (New Sabah Times)
24 November 2020 – NKF: There are 50,000 chronic kidney patients in Malaysia (Sin Chew Daily)
29 November 2020 – Minister salutes Sarawakians for beating third wave of Covid-19 (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
29 November 2020 – Govt to ensure every S’wakian has access to Covid-19 vaccine (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
29 November 2020 – OCBC Kuching donates RM40,000 to new haemodialysis centre (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
29 November 2020 – S’wak govt assures Covid-19 vaccine for every Sarawakian (The Borneo Post Sabah)
29 November 2020 – Sarawak perlu lebih banyak pusat rawatan hemodialisis (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)
29 November 2020 – Setiap rakyat Sarawak akan dapat vaksin COVID-19 seperti dijanjikan KM: Dr Sim (Utusan Borneo Sarawak)

December
08 December 2020 – For Kidneys Patients (New Straits Times)
12 December 2020 – Muis opens dialysis centre with 12 machines (The Borneo Post Sabah)
13 December 2020 – Spotlight on organ transplant (The Star)
13 December 2020 – MUIS buka pusat hemodialisis untuk bantu pesakit yang memerlukan (Utusan Borneo Sabah)
28 December 2020 – 15 per cent of Malaysians suffer from chronic kidney disease – Health DG (The Borneo Post Sarawak)
28 December 2020 – 15% of M’sians suffer from chronic kidney diseases (The Borneo Post Sabah)
28 December 2020 – Noor Hisham: Pay attention to health, Anti-pandemic and focus on kidney disease (China Press)
28 December 2020 – No symptoms at first, 15% of Malaysians suffer from chronic kidney disease (Guang Ming Daily)
28 December 2020 – Rise In Kidney Disease Cases Alarming (New Straits Times)
28 December 2020 – 15% of Malaysians suffer from kidney disease, and most of them do not know it (Oriental Daily)
28 December 2020 – Noor Hisham : 15% Malaysians have CKD; Many patients are unaware of it (Sin Chew Daily)
28 December 2020 – 15 peratus rakyat Malaysia hidap sakit buah pinggang (Daily Express Sabah)
29 December 2020 – 15pc M’sians suffer chronic kidney disease (Daily Express Sabah)
29 December 2020 – Grabs :Latest initiative aims at supporting local communities (New Sabah Times Sabah)
30 December 2020 – About 50,000 patients need treatment, 15% Malaysians have chronic kidney disease (Nanyang Siang Pau)