SITE….Nabawan new clinic site signboard erected, but no sign of work?
By : DAP MEDIA
THE PAKATAN Rakyat mobile service team visited Nabawan, Sook, and Pensiangan yesterday. The PR group was led by the PR Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament Hiew King Cheu with the company of Dr Benjamin Yapp, Philip Voon, Edward Ewol Mujie, and the PAS Publicity chief Hisammuddin Bin Hj Sulaiman.
The main purpose of the visit is to listen to the people here on their problems and their various requests to highlight to the government which were not heard.
MP Hiew found the trip to the interior is very successful and fruitful due to more important issues can be brought up and to bring some changes to the people here. It is true that the people here do need the voice of the opposition, and this is reflected by the warm welcome given to the PR team on arrival.
There are many problems being highlighted and brought to the attention of the KK MP Hiew. Hiew promised them these problems will be brought to the attention of the various departments for their immediate action.
Nabawan is a small interior town but it has all the required amenities and facilities. What the people here require is some solid economic growth and to boost their income. There is no apparent economy booster here and the people here depend on only some small agriculture produce only. For a long time the government had literately forgotten about them, let along bringing in some big plans to improve their local economy, living standard and livelihood.
INSPECT….The PR team inspecting the car park of the Clinic in Nabawan with Hisamuddin pointing at the pot holes.
The small old clinic here with two doctors has to serve and to care for the health of the twenty two thousand people here. This is a situation unacceptable and the ‘doctor to population’ is definitely too high, just imaging ‘1 doctor to 11,000 people’.
In Kuala Lumpur, it is only 1: 384. This figure only signified that the medical care service in the interior is still far behind from the required level in providing good health care to the people in Sabah. That reflected and proved it true that there is indeed a big shortage of doctors in Sabah. We are short of 2,000 doctors to help the Sabahan.
When can this shortage be filled up?
The existing small clinic is a small wooden building with some beds and the medical supplies is sufficient. The only problem they faced here is the broken down ambulances. There are three units of ambulances but two had broken down and they were left with one serviceable unit to ferry the patients around.
The proposed new Polyclinic is yet to be built, and the site had been changed and a new contractor appointed. So far the work was due to start on the 3rd of March 2010 and completed on the 5th of Feb. 2012, but until today we saw no sign of construction work on going.
The whole site is just an abandoned piece of empty land with some fencing on. This new polyclinic is to have the first X-ray unit installed for the use of the patient here. At the moment, the patients who needed x-ray service will have to be sent to Keningau. If needed to be sent to Kota Kinabalu, the helicopter had to be called in during emergency cases for further treatment.
The car park in the clinic here is definitely needed repair and up grading. It is so bad and the cars cannot even drive on it. The authorities and JKR must come here to repair this immediately. It is only a few trips of stone should do the job, what is so difficult about it!
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