Background Minor ailments are defined as common, self-limiting, or uncomplicated conditions that may be diagnosed and managed without a medical intervention. Previous studies reported that pharmacists were able to help patients self-manage minor ailments that led to a reduction of health care burden in other facilities. Nevertheless, public access to community pharmacy and other health care facilities offering services for minor ailments has not yet been explored in Malaysia. Hence, this study aims to determine population access to the above-mentioned services. Method According to the reported practice address in 2018, the spatial distribution of health care facilities was mapped and explored using the GIS mapping techniques. The density of health care facilities was analyzed using thematic maps with hot spot analysis. Population to facility ratio was calculated using the projection of the population growth based on 2010 census data, which was the latest available in the year of analysis. Results The study included geographical mapping of 7051 general practitioner clinics (GPC), 3084 community pharmacies (CP), 139 public general hospitals (GHs) and 990 public primary health clinics (PHC). The health care facilities were found to be highly dense in urban areas than in the rural ones. There were six districts that had no CP, 2 had no GPC, and 11 did not have both. The overall ratio of GPC, CP, GH, and PHC to the population was 1:4228, 1:10,200, 1:223,619 and 1:31,397, respectively. Should the coverage for minor ailment services in public health care clinics be extended to community pharmacies, the ratio of facilities to population for each district would be better with 1:4000–8000. Conclusions The distribution of health care facilities for minor ailment management in Malaysia is relatively good. However, if the scheme for minor ailments were available to community pharmacies, then the patients’ access to minor ailments services would be further improved.

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Nowadays, all data and information management is conducted in integrated digital form. The same goes for inventory management of road maintenance to ensure the updated road information. Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful application and able to analyse and store all the geospatial data. The objective of this study is to identify the physical condition of the roads in UKM based on information from the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, to produce spatial data storage of road distresses and to analyse the frequency of road distress in UKM. This study was carried out in the field and a desktop study. The results of the study proved that there is road damage occurring repeatedly in the same location yearly. The results from UAV found that in a period of one year, the types of distresses decrease from 11 types to 5 types, where patching is the highest occurring road distress. Lingkungan Ilmu indicates the highest number of road distress occurring along the period at 63 distresses in 2015 and 15 distresses in 2016. All the recorded information can be stored easily by using geospatial technology. This study shows that UAV and GIS are utilisable in maintaining road inventory management.