In February 2020, DoctorOnCall, an online medical video consultation startup founded by Maran Virumandi and Hazwan Najib in 2017, teamed up with Malaysia’s health ministry to develop a customised virtual health advisory platform that would address public concerns about Covid-19.
“This is a first-of-its-kind solution initiated by a government in the region,” said Hazwan. “Malaysians can access this portal for the latest Covid-19 updates and talk to specialist doctors for free from anywhere, seven days a week between 8.30am and 5pm, via the health ministry’s or DoctorOnCall’s coronavirus site.”