Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being For All At All Ages
- Better healthcare facilities
- Quality-built environments
Kuala Lumpur's healthcare services have been growing stronger through government investment, making it a leading global medical tourism destination, offering advanced and easily accessible medical facilities for public and private use, with opportunities for the city government to shift the focus towards promoting health and wellbeing.
Kuala Lumpur Overview SDG 3
Kuala Lumpur offers some of the best healthcare in the country with good physical access to healthcare facilities, active vaccination programs, and support from various government and non-governmental agencies to reduce overcrowding in public hospitals. These health-related services are either given based on government hospital rates or free depending on the services provided, including healthcare awareness and free screening for marginalised groups.
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Policies
Current Kuala Lumpur policies and frameworks to enable the acceleration of sustainable city
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Target
Targets set by Kuala Lumpur to reach the 2030 agenda
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Actions
Programmes undertaken by Kuala Lumpur and its citizens in achieving SDG
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Programmes
SDG Centre Kuala Lumpur current and past programmes
Policy and Frameworks
Current Kuala Lumpur policies and frameworks to enable the acceleration of sustainable city
Kuala Lumpur 2024
Kuala Lumpur 2040 prioritizes healthcare access and healthy living through:
- IS2.1 Ensuring sufficient and quality facilities including public health clinics to meet the needs of Kuala Lumpur
- IS1.3C Improve the homeless access to health facilities through collaboration with other agencies
- 1S1.1C Providing health support facilities within the special housing needs of the ageing population
Target
Targets set by Kuala Lumpur to reach the 2030 agenda.
15% risk of Premative mortality from cardiovascular deceases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease by 2025 (NCD)
- Reduce mortality of hepatitis by 65% and new hepatitis by 90% by 2030
Zero HIV, zero discrimation & zero AIDS (MOH) by 2030
- Prevalence of current tobacco use in person age 15+ years to be 15% by 2025
- Prevalence of diabetes and obesity <15% by 2025
Kuala Lumpur Overview SDG 3
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KL SDG Performance
