By : ELAINE MAH
MALAYSIA has the best health
care, according to Dr Adlan Suhaimi Ahmad, (picture) the Deputy Director of Sabah’s Health Department. And he says that Sabah has better medical imaging equipment
in diagnosing and treating diseases such as cancer than the other 12 Malaysian
states.
A sophisticated nuclear
medicine centre is being set up at Likas Hospital which already has an oncology
department. Both cost the government 264m ringgit ($83.5m).
Hospitals in the state are
getting better equipment, Dr Adlan told Insight Sabah on the sideline of a
yearly meeting of medical imaging in Kota Kinabalu on Sunday.
The nuclear medicine centre
will of course have a positron emission tomography scanner (Petscan) which will
allow doctors to treat cancers, diseases of the heart, muscles and brain such
as Alzheimer’s more accurately. The Likas hospital already has a magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) machine, computed tomography (CT) scanner and gamma
cameras that are used to scan organs such as the heart and kidneys to help
doctors in their diagnosis.
The two Queen Elizabeth
hospitals in Kota Kinabalu have MRI and CT scanners and government hospitals in
Keningau, Sandakan and Tawau have CT scanners. Lahad Datu hospital is expected
to have one by year end.
Dr Adlan said Kota Marudu
and Beaufort hospitals were being turned into specialist centres that would
complement the five specialist hospitals in Kota Kinabalu, Keningau, Lahad
Datu, Sandakan and Tawau.
Sabah hospitals are
increasingly becoming training ground for doctors. There are 500 housemen (new
doctors) in hospitals in Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and Tawau. Dr Adlan expects
hospitals in Keningau and Lahad Datu to become housemen training centres by
December.
The plus side is that more
specialists will be posted to Sabah as a hospital become a training centre for
doctors. So these hospitals will have to be equipped with more medical imaging
devices, according to Dr Adlan.
He welcomes the growth of
private health care in Sabah particularly with the building of a state-of-art
Gleneagles medical centre in Kota Kinabalu. It is expected to be ready in two
years. Demand for upscale medical care will increase as people become more
affluent, Dr Adlan said. And it means the Sabahans will have the best health
care at their doorstep. (Insight Sabah)
moga dgn ini mutu perkhidmatan perubatan di Sabah akan meningkat.
ReplyDeleteMasih banyak lagi kemudahan hospital yang perlu diperbaiki di Sabah. doktor pakar juga masih belum mencukupi.
ReplyDeleteTidak dinafikan lagi yang mana perubatan di Sabah sekarang ini semakin bertambah baik dan banyak kemudahan mula dinaiktaraf untuk memastikan dapat membantu rakyat Sabah.
ReplyDeleteTeruskan usaha yang terbaik untuk memastikan penyediaan peralatan perubatan di Sabah lengkap.
ReplyDeleteUnder the 10 & 11 MP, 800 clinics of "1Clinic 1School" (Mini Clinic cost of RM2 million) to be set up over the next 10 years. This is due to less medical services facility near the school
DeleteThe Likas hospital in Kota Kinabalu capital, the largest Thalassaemia treatment centre in Sabah, has 284 Thalassaemia major patients who need frequent blood transfusion and costly daily drug treatment
ReplyDeleteTHE Federal Government is providing a RM235mil interest-free loan to Sabah for a new water treatment plant and related facilities in interior Keningau district, with work expected to start by September.
ReplyDeleteDeputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan said the funding for the project as announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on June 16 was a loan because water was under the state’s jurisdiction.
ReplyDelete“The provision of the loan did not mean the state faced a shortage of funds but rather it would enable Sabah’s financial resources to be used for other development programmes,” he said in reply to a question from Datuk Justin Guka (BN-Bingkor).
ReplyDeleteState Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Peter Pang said a sharp drop in oxygen level was the likely cause of thousands of dead fish at the Likas sports complex pond last March.
ReplyDeleteHe said analysis of water samples carried out by the Fisheries and Chemistry departments showed that the oxygen content in the pond was 2.44 parts per million (PPM).
ReplyDeleteReplying to a question from Datuk Liew Teck Chan, he said the minimum oxygen levels in a recreational pond should be at five PPM.
ReplyDeleteAssistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Edward Khoo told the House that seven Klinik 1Malaysia were now operating at various towns around the state.
ReplyDelete“Two of the clinics – at Sulaman Central here and Bandar Leila in Sandakan – had been upgraded to health clinics due to the increasing number of patients seeking treatment there,” he said when responding to a question from Datuk Louis Rampas (BN-Kiulu).
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