In June 2010, I wrote an article in MMA Magazine “ The Place That Shall Not Be Named: Welcome to the world of Wizardry“. Many who read this article were puzzled that something like that is happening in Malaysia. Of course, I did not mention the name of the place but those who know me and know where I have worked before, will know which hospital I am talking about. A week ago, I received another info from a friend of mine who mentioned that there are many blood tests that cannot be done in the same hospital, till further notice. I have attached a copy of the list that was distributed to the doctors in that hospital.
Najib wants to build a 100 storey tower when the government can’t even provide basic simple healthcare to the public. Some of these blood test are simple routine blood test that should be available easily in any hospitals. I was also made to understand that the “Pengarah” of the hospital was transferred out to Putrajaya in September 2010, not sure whether my MMA article was the culprit!
Worst still, I heard some of the OTs are being forced to close down as there’s not enough consumables such as drip set, branullas etc. Please feel free to add-on if you have further info.
I have emailed DG of Health regarding the inavailability of blood tests. He replied “Thank you for highlighting this. I will pursue the matter.” cc to a few other people incl Dr Azmi, Datuk Hisham, TKSU.P, TKSU.K etc.
Let’s see what happens!
this is going to now where..next year this thing will happens again…
we need a national health insurance scheme.
PEOPLE must pay their unsubsidized hospital bills!
running a hospital is expensive…
the blood tests/medicines/surgical procedures are costly and most of the doctors want to drive BMW!
“subsidy brings down productivity”