DAP Sabah state assistant secretary Junz Wong said up to today, Sabah, despite purchasing over QEH II (SMC), only has one set of RT external /CT Scan /TPS machines for cancer treatments.
Healthcare Issue 1:-
Junz said, "Before 2009, QEH I has one CT Scan machine for DIAGNOSTIC only. Now that Government has taken over SMC (QEH II now) in 2009, Sabah then own one extra set of CT Scan machine for DIAGNOTICS + RT Treatment planning purposes."
QE Hospital had been renting RT/CT scan from SMC for Cancer patient treatments till 2009. All these while QEH has only owned one CT scan machine for diagnostic ONLY. Junz explained.
Dr Heric has refuted allegations that Sabah cancer patients have been sent to Kuching & KL for treatments saying there were false accusations.
Junz answered critics : QEH I may own a CT scan machine but it is only meant for diagnostic purposes. QEH II now has 2 separate set of machines for cancer treatments:-
a) HDR brachytherapy machine solely for woman cancer treatment is total damaged. Cannot be used at all thus there were many cases where female cancer patients were sent away for treatments.
b) RT external/CT SCAN/TPS (Treatment Planning System) for cancer treatments. All 3 separate machines must be in working condition in order to give proper treatments but each different machines always break down on monthly basis due to a few reasons : overworked because it was used for both private and government patients, treatment sharing for example diagnostic and cancer treatment. As a result, Sabah patients were sent away from treatments when the machines are under maintenance works.
After 49 years of independence, Sabah has got a raw deal for healthcare welfares. KL has 5 sets of cancer treatment machines, Kuching has 3 sets, UM has 2 sets, UKM has 2 sets whereby Sabah only has 1 overworked worn down set of cancer treating machines.
Healthcare Issue 2:-
Junz Wong who is also DAPSY KK assistant Youth Chief said, In November 2009, Govt has taken over SMC and thus has taken over all facilities and equipments. Apparently, SMC has no new building thus they have rented SMC building from Govt which was a 2 years contract till November 2011.
Since the contract has expired, SMC proposed building was not ready yet and thus SMC continued to stay at QEH II building. However, the problem is, no proper contract since Nov 2011, SMC should renew to compensate government via public fund for continuous occupation of QEH II. It should not be free of charge.
DAP Sabah demanded Health ministry and Health Director to come clean with this issue as it is tax payer money which has been compromised. Why has a new contract been drafted and signed to ensure compensations.
Looking at the progress of the new building development, i can safely say that the building will take at least another 2 years to be completed thus a contract is mandatory to safeguard the public interests and has to be done immediately. Junz concluded.
Kementerian Kesihatan perlulah memastikan setiap hospital dilengkapi dengan fasiliti dan alat yang mencukupi supaya boleh menampung keperluan pesakit.
ReplyDeleteBetul tu. Namanya juga kesihatan tu berkaitan dengan keselamatan @ nyawa. So pastikan segala fasiliti mencukupi.
Deletefasiliti hospital kena lengkap bagi memastikan keperluan pesakit dpt dipenuhi.
Deletemungkin peruntukan juga diperlukan untuk memastikan semua ini dapat dipenuhi.
DeleteFasiliti hospital perlu lwngkap untuk kemudahan rakyat.
DeleteHarap pembinaan bagunan baru untuk hospital ini akan disiapakan tepat pada masa yang dijanjikan.
ReplyDeleteItulah sebaiknya. Jangan dilengahkan lagi nanti makin teruk pula masalah yang timbul.
Deletekebajikan pesakit perlu sentiasa dijaga. jika bangunan ini lewat disiapkan pasti akan memberi masalah kepada pesakit yang bilangannya semakin bertambah.
Deleteharap pembinaan hospital ini akan dapat disiapkan pada masa terdekat untuk kebaikan semua pihak.
DeleteHarap tidak delay. perkidmatan harus juga dipertingkatkan kualitinya.
DeleteIt is no doubt that the problem of Queen II and SMC exited all these while. It would not be easy to solve the problem. It involves many "political leaders" I believe.
ReplyDeleteAnother problem that we are facing is the attitude of some of the staff that they do not care to maintain /take care of the expensive machines allocated.
Healthcare Issue 1:-
ReplyDelete"KL has 5 sets of cancer treatment machines, Kuching has 3 sets, UM has 2 sets, UKM has 2 sets whereby Sabah only has 1 overworked worn down set of cancer treating machines."
Hopefully MOH will provide more Cancer Treatment machines that can compensated the existing machine as being highlighted within this article.
Healthcare Issue 2:-
ReplyDelete"Looking at the progress of the new building development, i can safely say that the building will take at least another 2 years to be completed thus a contract is mandatory to safeguard the public interests and has to be done immediately. Junz concluded."
The contractor that has been tasked for this work better put in some extra effort in order to "safeguard the public interests". The completion of these infrastructure is deemed crucial.
At present, the Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin has announce (on 1 February, sourced from Bernama) that the construction of the Nuclear and Radiotherapy, valuing at RM 264 M is currently on schedule and as of 31 December if last year, it was at 87% completion.
ReplyDeleteHopefully with this instance of facility that is made available ( apart form the Cardiac Treatment Centre in Luyang), the Ministry of Health (MOH) will allocated more specialist to man these facilities as well as to cater the needs of the general populous.
ReplyDeleteHopefully in the future, there will be more such centres being establish in major cities within the five divisions in Sabah to fully cater this need.
ReplyDeleteApart from that, there will be more Sabahan will pursue their studues in the field of medicine thus be able to man these facilities.
ReplyDeleteSemoga perkara ini mendapat perhatian sewajarnya. Susahlah kalau dibiarkan saja.
ReplyDeletePlease don't make any excuses on this issue anymore.
ReplyDeleteharap masalah ini akan di beri perhatian yang wajar bagi membantu rakyat Sabah yang menggunakan perkhidmatan ini.
ReplyDeleteThis is something shouldn't be left out.
ReplyDeleteMasalah ini tidak harus dibiarkan begitu saja.
ReplyDeletemungkin ramai pihak yang tidak tahu bahawa Sabah merupakan negeri yang paling banyak hospital kerajaan berbanding dengan negeri2 lain..
ReplyDeletejika hospital di negeri ini hanya sebiji dua, sudah tentu kerajaan dapat memfokuskan kelengkapan yang canggih sebagaimana yang ada di negeri2 lain..
ReplyDeletePenjagaan kesihatan tidak sepatutnya diabaikan.
ReplyDeleteIt is Health Ministry duty to provide proper and sufficient facilities to all hospitals.
ReplyDelete