Politik, Legislatif, Dasar dan Tadbir Urus

There's a recent call from the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) calling on the government to build more hospitals to ensure jobs for doctors in this nation. To us, the MMA is wrong about calling for more hospitals to be build but not exactly in the overall situation. First, the government has already build so many modern hospitals nationwide. Be it district hospitals or sub-district based hospitals. These modern hospitals are well-equipped (in most of them). The only thing is these modern equipped hospitals are not fully-utilized. Why? Because there are not enough doctors in these hospitals to handle all those modern hospitals. As such, these equipment became some sort of white elephant, in the end. Where had all those doctors gone to? The Health Ministry tends to assign these doctors or housemen to district and state level hospitals and not those sub-district or rural based hospitals. Just take an example of the Seberang Jaya Hospital in Central Seberang Perai. It has ...

Recently, a Penang state assemblyman from Umno, Datuk Roslan Saidin has made a claim that "Chinese" doctors attached to the Seberang Jaya and Kepala Batas hospitals respectively had purportedly refused to treat Malay patients, According to Roslan too, these "Chinese" doctors' refusal to treat Malay patients was the result of the influence particularly from the Opposition parties which had made some inroads into the BN strongholds in the recently concluded general elections, citing these "Chinese" doctors having believed the "lies" of the Opposition. Apart from that, Roslan also claimed that the "Chinese Tsunami" had also went into the minds of these "Chinese" civil servants. However, when asked to name all those "Chinese" doctors who refused to treat Malay patients in the Seberang Jaya and Kepala Batas hospitals respectively, Roslan had refused to name these culprits. Is Roslan refusing to reveal the nam...