Thursday 9 February 2012

TENOM DISTRICT HOSPITAL LACK OF DOCTORS



THE general public made their complaints to the Sabah DAP visiting team led by the KK MP Hiew King Cheu during their visit to the Tenom District recently concerning the Tenom District Hospital is lack of medical doctors and medical assistants.

MP Hiew made a surprise visit on the 6th of February to the hospital and to his surprise the only doctor in the hospital was on leave. There was only one medical assistant attending to some 50 patients in the out patient room. It was 11.30am and the MA had managed to see only 18 patients, and there was many still waiting to be called. Some sick person said that they have waited since early morning.

The sole doctor station in this hospital was on leave on that day, and so happened that there was a man with shot gun wound admitted into the emergency ward, and there was no doctor to attend to him. The bulletshad pierced through his left shoulder and and arm, and he was bleeding badly. It was later known that this patient was rushed to Keningau General Hospital by ambulance for treatment.

There are only two units of serviceable ambulance working in this hospital, while the third one is out of order and pending repair. This standard on the emergency ambulance service is not acceptable because in Tenom District there are some 100,000 people covering a very big and remote area.

MP Hiew was very disappointed with the Ministry of Health for not able to provide more doctors to serve in the Tenom District Hospital. We all know that in Sabah there is a lack of 2000 doctors and this is just a typical case. He reminded that the Sabahan are not third class citizen and the people in Tenom also have the equal rights as any other Malaysian. The Tenom people should not be deprived of the basic right to enjoy good medical care and continuous guarantee good health services.

The Minister of Health should pay more attention to this bad situation in all the hospitals, clinic, polyclinic all over Sabah, in particular the interior of Sabah. For the Tenom hospital, the Ministry of Health should immediately post two more medical doctors and one more medical assistant to work in this hospital.

The equipment in the hospital must be improved with additional unit for saving lives and to meet the demand. This will avoid the patients from being sent to the Keningau

Hospital, which caused much agony, time lost and sometimes life lost.

We want to see that the BN government to fulfill this task of providing good medical services to the people of Tenom, according to their slogan of 'People First'! Otherwise all these will turn out to be 'Empty Promises'!

11 comments:

  1. Kementerian kesihatan perlulah memastikan setiap hospital mempunyai pakar perubatan dan doktor yang mencukupi supaya boleh menanggung keperluan rakyat di situ.

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    1. kena pastikan bilangan doktor mencukupi.

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  2. Satu saja doktor dalam hospital yang begitu besar semestinya tidak mencukupi untuk merawat semua pesakit, perlulah menambah beberapa orang lagi.

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    1. sangat menyedihkan jika terdapat kes2 kematian berlaku disebabkan hospital kekurangan atau tidak mempunyai doktor untuk merawat pesakit.

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  3. masalah kekurangan doktor berlaku di mana2 hospital.

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  4. in Sabah, there are 23 government hospitals with 25 ambulances and 77 clinics the private ambulance service is a milestone for Sabah.

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  5. Kementerian Kesihatan akan memperluaskan perkidmatan doktor udara di Sabah, teerutama di kawasan pendalaman.

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  6. perlu sedar bahawa Malaysia mengalami masalah brain drain. ramai pelajar2 perubatan yang lebih tertarik untuk bekerja di luar negara berbanding di negara ni. jadi, kita tidak hairan jika berlakunya kekurangan doktor.

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    1. Kenapa mereka lebih suka untuk bekerja di luar negara? Gaji tinggi? Kerajaan kena ambil perhatian terhadap isu2 seperti ini. Kekurangan bilangan doktor menyebabkan doktor2 yang ada sekarang terpaksa kerja lebih dari masa. Mungkin itu salah satu sebab mereka kurang berminat untuk teruskan perkhidmatan di tempat sendiri.

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  7. Permintaan doktor semakin tinggi disebabkan oleh kekurangan yang pakar dalam bidang tersebut.

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  8. kerajaan patut mencari punca kenapa negeri ini berhadapan dengan masalah kekurangan doktor..

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