Tag: university hospitals

16 February 2024

Government Must Decide The Role Of University Hospitals: Ex-Minister Subra

Former Health Minister Dr S. Subramaniam says the government must decide whether a university hospital's role is to be a service hospital or if it's meant to purely be a teaching hospital and research centre. If the former, then more funding must be given.

23 January 2024

Malaysia

MOH ‘Welcomes’ Proposed Independent Housemen Hiring By University Hospitals

MOH backs a proposed independent housemen recruitment system for uni hospitals. Dr Dzul says housemen placement priority is for MOH, not university hospitals; not all MOH's teaching hospitals (HLS) received HOs. "If HLS are not getting HOs, what more HPU."

18 January 2024

Malaysia

MOH And MOHE Must Resolve Their ‘Bad Blood’: Musa Nordin

Dr Musa Nordin calls for a joint MOH-MOHE task force to resolve doctor shortages and other staffing issues in MOH and university hospitals, saying there has been much “bad blood” between health care staff on the ground and leaders in MOH and academia.

20 October 2023

Malaysia

Government Saved Nearly RM80 Million Through Pool Procurement Of Medicines: MOH Official

Pool procurement between MOH, six teaching hospitals, and a military hospital to collectively purchase, as a single buyer, 82 drugs from 2020 to 2022 had saved the government RM79.6 million, says an MOH official.

10 March 2023

Letter

Wage Theft And Tolerant Doctors: Stop The Nonsense! — Dr Timothy Cheng

Getting a doctor to work on a Saturday and Sunday and telling them "you cannot claim" is essentially saying that they have to work for free. This is not only happening in UMMC, but also other centres. Stop this nonsense, writes Dr Timothy Cheng.

9 March 2023

Malaysia

Accused Of ‘Wage Theft’, UMMC Says Only ‘Authorised’ On-Call Staff Are Paid

A doctor accuses UMMC of "wage theft" for not compensating passive on-call work that is worth RM560-RM980 monthly (10%-20% of salary), but the university hospital says only individuals on the authorised on-call schedule are eligible for on-call allowances.

9 December 2022

Malaysia

Rethink Health Budget As 5-Year Project, Not Annual Earmarks

The Galen Centre moots health budgeting as a multi-year project with costing instead of annual allocations, besides including health spending in the higher education and defence ministries.

20 June 2022

Malaysia

Why Medicine Shortages Are Affecting Health Facilities Disproportionately

MOH, university, and private hospitals manage their drug stocks differently; both MOH and university hospitals also ration prescriptions to deal with shortages.

15 December 2020

Malaysia

UMMC, HPKK Getting 100% Emoluments Under Budget 2021

The minister of higher education says UMMC’s non-emolument need is very high and approval for non-emoluments is restricted based on a ceiling for teaching hospitals.

25 November 2020

Malaysia

Budget Cuts Hit Covid-19 Hospital UMMC, UKM Specialist Children’s Hospital

The allocation for medicines for all university hospitals was reduced by RM5 million in MOHE's 2021 budget; it's unclear how much money has been allocated for teaching hospitals' drugs under the special RM1 billion Covid-19 sum.

Tag: university hospitals

Government Must Decide The Role Of University Hospitals: Ex-Minister Subra

MOH ‘Welcomes’ Proposed Independent Housemen Hiring By University Hospitals

MOH And MOHE Must Resolve Their ‘Bad Blood’: Musa Nordin

Government Saved Nearly RM80 Million Through Pool Procurement Of Medicines: MOH Official

Wage Theft And Tolerant Doctors: Stop The Nonsense! — Dr Timothy Cheng

Accused Of ‘Wage Theft’, UMMC Says Only ‘Authorised’ On-Call Staff Are Paid

Rethink Health Budget As 5-Year Project, Not Annual Earmarks

Why Medicine Shortages Are Affecting Health Facilities Disproportionately

UMMC, HPKK Getting 100% Emoluments Under Budget 2021

Budget Cuts Hit Covid-19 Hospital UMMC, UKM Specialist Children’s Hospital

DPAM Plans Masterclass For Health Professionals To Reduce Dengue Deaths

Proposed Medical Act Amendment ‘Huge Mistake’ With Non-Accredited Parallel Pathway: Paediatric Surgeon

University Opposition Swells Against Amending Medical Act For Parallel Pathway

Hisham Didn’t Have A ‘Split Personality’ As Health DG, MMC President: Lawyers

MOH To Offer More HLP Scholarships, Parallel Pathway Slots Amid MMC Dispute