Health Ministry to meet Facebook over blocked hotline on WhatsApp


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 19 Jun 2019

Logo of WhatsApp, the popular messaging service seen here on a smartphone. - AFP

PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry will soon meet with Facebook over reports that its subsidiary WhatsApp has blocked the ministry’s smoking ban hotline on its app.

A hotline service on WhatsApp had been set up by the ministry to clamp down on those violating the smoking ban in restaurants and eateries.

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