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The most frequent complaint of public hospitals is the long waiting list. Do you know that the Ministry of Health (MOH) has introduced the Full Paying Patient (FPP) scheme in 4 public hospitals in Malaysia. They are the Hospital Sultan Bahiyah in Alor Setar, Hospital Serdang and Hospital Sg. Buloh in Selangor and Hospital Sultan Ismail in Johor. This will be expanded to more hospitals soon. The FPP scheme allows doctors in government service to charge full fees to those patients who can afford it. Where do the lower income group, the Government servants and retirees go to get subsidized specialist treatment? Will they be pushed behind the line of the FPP queue? What will this do to the already long waiting list to see a government specialist?



Are you paying up to RM3000 in medical insurance every year and still have the nagging fear that this may not be enough cover when you need it most? The MOH has approved 43 new health tourism licenses to private hospitals. Medical centres are buying and trying to outdo each other in buying expensive high tech equipment. Private hospitals are adding more and more frills to their services. There is a lack of control by the authorities in the hospital charges. Will private health care be out of the reach of most locals and only affordable to the rich medical tourists?

What do you know about the 1Malaysia Clinic and its impact to you?

Not everyone is using public health care. But at the rate private health care costs are escalating, the day of affordable private health care may be out of reach of many people very soon. Come to this forum and find out what’s ailing our health care system.


HEALTH FOR ALL ( WHO declaration)

Excerpt from HERE:

In 1977, the World Health Assembly decided that the major social goal of governments and WHO should be the attainment by all people of the world by the year 2000 of a level of health that would permit them to lead a socially and economically productive life.


In 1981, the Assembly unanimously adopted the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000. This was the birth of the “Health for All” movement.

“Health for All” does not mean an end to disease and disability, or that doctors and nurses will care for everyone. It means that resources for health are evenly distributed and that essential healthcare is accessible to everyone.

It also means that health begins at home, in schools, as well as the workplace, and that people use better approaches for preventing means that people recognise that ill health is not inevitable and that they can shape their own lives and those of their families from the avoidable burden of disease.


This month the Sembang-sembang Forum are discussing health care issues. YB Dr. Jayakumar ( MP Sg. Siput ) will speak on problems in the Health Care Services. Details are as follows:


If you are in Penang this afternoon, please come for the forum.

Please CLICK HERE to read more. You can also read the post I wrote on this topic called Health Care Issues in Malaysia. Do leave a comment if you wish to share your thoughts on this topic. Thanks! Have a nice day!