Patient advocate Sew Boon Lui wants a Sarawak Cancer Centre. Oncologist Dr Ibrahim Abdul Wahid suggests subsidised private health insurance, where the government partially covers one’s premiums.
There's excessive concentration of power and authority at the central level. Grant decentralisation and greater autonomy over the health sector for Sarawak.
Are political parties up to the task of addressing the critical issues currently facing the health care system, which is clearly unsustainable? Or are they going to kick it down the road to the next government?
We require a radical change in approach and not “more of the same”. We must achieve health for ALL, not as an average or for a segment of the community.
Advocates should push political parties and election candidates to address various health issues in GE15 election manifestos, like health care financing, social and aged care, access to abortion, NCDs, tobacco control, HIV/AIDS, and pandemic preparedness.