KK QEH 1 WARD IS FLOODED?

THE KK QEH 1 wards on the 1st floor of the old block were flooded following the heavy down pour last night. The patients had to be moved to other wards due to the pounding of water on the floors.

There were some twenty over patients who were in the ward during that time. The worst part is that the lift was out of order and the patients had to be hand-carried to get to the ground floor. It took the hospital over ten people to do the transferring job down the staircase.

The water is leaking through the cracked concrete roof that was reported last month where a patient was hit and injured by the falling ceiling pieces and the concrete fragments. The water is leaking seriously from the cracked roof now.

This raised much concern and worries amount the hospital personals and the patients. This seems that the building has become unsafe and what is the hospital management is going to do about it. The lift was out of order and according to some one here it is too expensive to repair. It may cost some fifty thousand to repair and get it going again. Therefore, we see that there are many things being stacked in front of the lift and a notice was posted there.

We want our hospital buildings to be safe and sound but this is getting too far and really worried the people. In the QEH 1, there were too many such bad happenings, if one can remember. First the Tower Block and now the old block, what is next?

One patient told the KK MP Hiew King Cheu that he worries more about the building than his own sickness, and he doesn’t know whether he is safe to sleep there? Hiew views the situation really needs immediate care and investigation by the hospital board and the JKR.

The Ministry of Health must act and make necessary action to thorough check on their hospital and clinic through out the country. It is a fact that other states also had similar situation happened before.

There is a common saying “Prevention is better than cure”!

MP Hiew again reminds the Heath Department that QEH 1 is still having an acute car parking problems. The traffic police continued to summon the cars that were forced to park by the road sides and on the round about due to couldn’t find a parking space. It is the duty of the Health department to immediately create and build more parking spaces now. The open space and available land under the hospital must be converted into parking space without further delay.

This is because when the twin tower blocks are ready, the 606 beds will bring along at least 1,000 cars. By then where are these cars going to park? There is still no sight of the new multi-storey car park building, and we don’t know when this can actually start work. It is quite sure that the multi-storey car park will not be ready before the completion of the twin tower blocks. By then we shall see havoc and congestion all over the QEH 1.

It is time to act and do not sit on it any longer, said KK MP Hiew.