KAPIT, Aug. 23 -- In a modest side room at Kapit Hospital, Sarawak, a quiet revolution is unfolding. It's not the kind that makes headlines or starts global trendsbut the kind that saves lives, one pixel at a time.

Here, away from the bustle of city hospitals, staff prepare blood slides the old-fashioned way - a drop of blood, a smear, and a slide carefully packed for delivery to a lab hundreds of kilometres away in Kuching. But what happens next is where the future begins.

At Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), those same slides are digitised, processed, and analysed using a homegrown AI tool developed by a team at Universiti Malaya (UM). The system, called MalariaCare+, is already showing promise in detecting human malaria with grea...