Budget 2010 and Healthcare
posted in - Featured site, - Nation, - Palmdoc |Dr. David Quek, MMA President, has penned his opinion on Budget 2010: What’s in it for health care? . Long but interesting read.
David concludes:
Thus overall, the Budget 2010 for health care has been more noise than substance, and is quite disappointing, with a few shocks and regressive suggestions which are at best impractical, but at worst even contradictory, to our existing system and regulations.
We urge the government and the MOH to help resolve some of these incongruities by tapping, perhaps integrating, existing services such as urban private GP clinics, and engage and enhance greater public-private partnerships.
We must move towards better and a more consistent maintenance culture for our existing health facilities and management so that they function at tip top, zero-defect efficiency, with enhanced quality and safety, supported and manned by adequately trained personnel and physicians.
I agree.
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October 31st, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Malaysian public healthcare is moving backwards.
Instead of more technological advances, or rebuilding condemned hospitals in Sabah, we are spending money on Traditional massage etc.
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Instead of having more doctors at primary care level, we are putting Medical Assistants (formerly called Hospital Assistants) at the forefront.
Sure, some HAs are capable, from their many years of experience, but are the new ones all good too? Historically, surgery was performed by barbers. Why not allow barbers to perform surgery now too?
October 31st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
MAs can man 1Malaysia clinics. Private clinics can only be manned by doctors. PHFSA does not apply to the MOH.
1Malaysia = 1 rule for you, 1 rule for me ?