Like the Emergency Medical Hologram on Star Trek Voyager as they journeyed through the Delta Quadrant, BHIS was forced to support the entire Selayang Hospital for far longer than it was meant to, including through the crazy months of the Delta wave.
First aid training is essential to equip the general public with the necessary skillset needed to assess and react in a medical emergency. Research confirms that training improves one’s probability and willingness to perform first aid.
MOH hospitals will slowly degenerate to provide just the barest minimum care, since there will always be doctors who will stay on, and so the system will never collapse.
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control provides a list of do’s and don’ts for all public officials when dealing with tobacco industry-related officials.
The Health Minister must engage with patients and the public, who have their own unique experiences, to truly understand problems and reform the physician-centric health care system into a patient-centred one, writes academic pharmacist Mark Cheong.
"There needs to be serious, committed action by JPA and MOF to support MOH in health care reforms. From human resource to facility and infrastructure – there's only so much we can do with limited finances" – specialist doctor, MOH hospital, Sabah.
Under 6,000 environmental health officers & assistant EHOs are involved in the groundwork of public health: dengue, food safety, tobacco control etc. We're not entitled to enforcement allowances. After CNY, some contract assistant EHOs didn't get renewed.
Those of us who work and advocate for persons with disabilities are all too aware of how limited services and facilities are for such persons in Malaysia.