13 December 2022
Perak exco A. Sivanesan, who visited HRPB’s emergency unit today, says he has discussed the ED's overcrowding problem with the hospital director, Perak state health director, and health minister.
Tag: Perak
13 December 2022
HRPB acknowledges room for improvement in quality of care, like other hospitals. Experts Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman and Dr Christopher Lee express concern over the crisis at HRPB’s ETD.
12 December 2022
Non-Covid Red Zone cases in Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s ETD are waiting about 2-3 days for ward admission, even up to 6 days. Some very ill patients are unmonitored when stranded in “no man’s zone”, shunted between the busy emergency and ward teams. This is a long read.
18 November 2022
Howard Lee says elected reps need to drive public health campaigns as community leaders, citing Kinta Valley in Perak that saw high participation in the Peka B40 health screening programme.
15 November 2022
PH’s Ipoh Timor candidate Howard Lee says that to solve Malaysia’s care and ageing crisis “just in time”, the government must start working on it now, not in three or five years' time.
12 November 2022
Orang Asli women from the Temiar tribe at Kg Makmur in Ulu Kinta, Perak, speak about mobile clinics for health checks and a Jakoa health transit station turned makeshift maternity ward.
9 November 2022
Saarani Mohamad says Perak is an ageing society, with the emigration of about 124,000 young people. About 11% of Perak’s population is aged 65 and older, nearly double the nationwide rate.
7 November 2022
Howard Lee says the multi-cornered contests in GE15, involving parties that have been in government at some point, bring a new paradigm of focusing on policies instead of politics and alliances.
29 July 2022
An external inquiry agreed that the paramedic who attended to Ipoh teacher Kumaraveloo Terpari “should have done” CPR, but reportedly said the MA wasn't in the "right mindset".
5 July 2022
The Health Ministry's National Committee on Resuscitation Training (NCORT) states in a 2012 guideline: “It is a duty of every doctor to attempt resuscitation on any patients with cardiac arrest.”