Pada Disember 29, 2022, kaunter farmasi di Hospital Selayang memberitahu saya bahawa ubat Alphagan Eye Drops tidak dapat dibekalkan dan menyuruh saya membeli ubat itu sendiri di pasaran luar.
2022 saw major health issues like medicine shortages, the tobacco bill, and MySejahtera, while chronic problems like overcrowded emergency departments, junior doctor bullying, and NCDs remain unresolved. Health care reform is a key question entering 2023.
Patients in private hospitals in Klang Valley, Penang, Melaka, and JB are waiting 6-8 hours or longer in the emergency room for beds in wards due to a nursing shortage; PHFSA 1998 prohibits private hospitals from opening up beds without sufficient nurses.
Public hospitals in Besut, Setiu, and Hulu Terengganu can only be accessed via water or air transport. Floods have affected 40 public health care facilities in Terengganu and 32 in Kelantan.
Emergency doctors from public hospitals in KL say the evolution of the “war zone” emergency department, forced by overcrowding, may lead to patients not getting standard of care.
MMA says including private GPs in NCD prevention and management will help spread patients out across clinics. Dr Milton Lum tells MPs to push Peka B40 screenings in their service centres.
Former Ipoh Timor MP Lim Kit Siang calls for an immediate short-term solution to the overcrowding crisis in all hospitals, as well as a long-term focus on preventive health.
A doctor suggests that adult medicine physicians take more responsibility and be involved in managing patients in ED, as the paediatric, surgical, O&G, or orthopaedic departments do.
Dr Kelvin Yii suggests decanting patients in HRPB and other severely congested public hospitals to private; Dr Dzul says the perennial overcrowding problem is almost like a time bomb.
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.