Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Wanita PBS, UMNO, and OutReach Group bring joys to Thalassemia Patients
Wanita PBS, UMNO, and OutReach Group bring joys to Thalassemia Patients as published in Daily Express today (21-Dec-2009).
Thank you to PBS, UMNO, and the OutReach Group for the great efforts that saw joys on the faces of all thalassemia patients comprises of mostly kids.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Best health care in 30 months
Best health care in 30 months
Published on: Daily Express / Thursday, December 17, 2009
http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69541
Published on: Daily Express / Thursday, December 17, 2009
http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=69541
Kota Kinabalu: The Federal Government is committed to ensure Sabah gets the best healthcare service by readying 2,296 hospital beds in the State Capital within 30 months.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the various actions taken by the Federal Government, especially the renovation of the Sabah Medical Centre (SMC), would also see the establishment of the Sabah Heart Centre, expected to be fully operational next year.
He said that with 2,296 beds, the State Capital's hospital beds per population ratio would be drastically lowered to 1:348 (bed for people), which is better than the national average of 1:530.
Presently, the ratio here is 1:754 based on the city's present population of more than 800,000.
Liow said the city's bed-for-people ratio would still be better than the national average even if its population should rise to one million within two years, that is 1:435. He said the Ministry was renovating the existing empty floors to add 284 beds to the existing 171 beds after officially taking over SMC on Nov. 3 this year.
The renovation works costing RM90 million at SMC, which would be referred to as Queen Elizabeth Hospital II, as an administrative term of reference within the next two years, are expected to be completed in eight months.
More beds, he said, were expected with the completion of the Twin Tower block of the QEH within two and half years' time plus another 200 additional beds (to the existing 298 beds) at the Likas Hospital (Mother and Child Hospital) where a Cancer Centre is expected to be completed by end of next year.
"This increase will be more than adequate to cater to the bed loss due to the decanting of the structurally unsafe Podium and the Tower Block of Queen Elizabeth Hospital," he said during a visit to the SMC, Wednesday.
"Besides this, there will be an upgrading of the Accident and Emergency Department, Operating Theatres and On Call Complex to enhance and expand services," he said.
The establishment of the Sabah Heart Centre would comprise two Invasive Cath. Labs, two cardiac operating theatres, 10-bed cardiothoracic intensive care unit (CICU) and 10-bed coronary care unit (CCU) and a cardiac ward.
"These facilities shall provide the much needed invasive cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery for heart patients in Sabah," he said, adding the Ministry had for the past one year been training a team of allied health personnel to staff the Heart Centre.
"Since the beginning of this year, two interventional cardiologists have been sent to Sabah to set up the service. In the near future a cardiothoracic surgeon and an anaesthetist will be sent to join the heart team here," he said.
Liow also announced that the QEH heart team had successfully implanted a pacemaker on a patient who suffered from abnormal heart rhythm, using the existing cath. lab in the hospital on Nov. 12 this year.
To date, the Ministry had fully funded 12 pacemaker procedures and that recently the Government had further committed an additional RM2 million for consumables, drugs and devices to ensure the Sabah Heart Centre is fully operational in 2010.
A multi-storey car park with capacity for 327 bays would be built within the site to ease parking shortage and two additional lifts would also be built to cope with the anticipated increase in number of patients in the building.
"Currently, surgical sub-speciality services are slowly reintegrated in this hospital, which includes general surgery, orthopaedics, neuro-surgery, urology, plastic surgery and eye surgery," he said.
On the complaints of lack of operating theatres, Liow said three modular operating theatres would be installed while 15 operating tables are expected to be ready once the QEH Tower block project is completed.
He said the Tower block project, which will cost about RM300 million had already been finalised and works are expected to start next year after tenders are called.
The project is inclusive of the demolition of the structurally unsafe Podium, he said.
SMC's RM238m price tag based on valuation: Liow
SMC's RM238m price tag based on valuation: Liow
Published on: Daily Express / Thursday, December 17, 2009
LIOW shot down allegations by certain quarters that the Government wasted the people's money in acquiring SMC for RM238 million, which they claim is too expensive.
He said since this involved a government asset everything was done in accordance to procedure to ensure that every single sen spent is beneficial for the people. He said the RM238 million was based on the proposed valuation price and it had also been referred to other valuation firms and was considered to be reasonable and accepted by all.
"The Federal Government is very concerned with the healthcare service in Sabah," he said, adding that attempts by certain quarters to politicise health issues in Sabah were uncalled for.
"I am committed, the Ministry is committed and the Federal Government is committed É we will continue to build more hospitals and clinics so that health in the outskirts and rural areas will be taken care of," he said.
It includes servicing remote areas like islands through the helicopter service and scheduled visits by the mobile clinics, he said.
Liow said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, himself was very concerned about Sabah's healthcare resulting in the approval to purchase SMC. The matter was also thoroughly discussed in the Federal Cabinet, he said, adding that to build a new building might take about three years and that it would be much quicker to address the shortage of hospital beds here through the purchase of SMC.
He urged those people trying to manipulate health issues for political gains to stop doing so. "We bought at a fair price for the people of Sabah, everything is transparent." Also on hand were Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Edward Khoo, State Health Director, Dr Marzuki Mohd Isa and senior health officials.
Published on: Daily Express / Thursday, December 17, 2009
LIOW shot down allegations by certain quarters that the Government wasted the people's money in acquiring SMC for RM238 million, which they claim is too expensive.
He said since this involved a government asset everything was done in accordance to procedure to ensure that every single sen spent is beneficial for the people. He said the RM238 million was based on the proposed valuation price and it had also been referred to other valuation firms and was considered to be reasonable and accepted by all.
"The Federal Government is very concerned with the healthcare service in Sabah," he said, adding that attempts by certain quarters to politicise health issues in Sabah were uncalled for.
"I am committed, the Ministry is committed and the Federal Government is committed É we will continue to build more hospitals and clinics so that health in the outskirts and rural areas will be taken care of," he said.
It includes servicing remote areas like islands through the helicopter service and scheduled visits by the mobile clinics, he said.
Liow said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, himself was very concerned about Sabah's healthcare resulting in the approval to purchase SMC. The matter was also thoroughly discussed in the Federal Cabinet, he said, adding that to build a new building might take about three years and that it would be much quicker to address the shortage of hospital beds here through the purchase of SMC.
He urged those people trying to manipulate health issues for political gains to stop doing so. "We bought at a fair price for the people of Sabah, everything is transparent." Also on hand were Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister Datuk Edward Khoo, State Health Director, Dr Marzuki Mohd Isa and senior health officials.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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PRESS RELEASE - Christmas & New Year Celebration at Thalassemia Treatment Centre, Hospital Queen Elizabeth
Indication: ( 1st from Left) Sister Irene, (sixth from Left) Puan Maria Sandra Sho, (seventh from left) Chu Kong Ming, (eight from left) Datin Mary Yong, (ninth from left) Puan Nining Ballard, (Sixth from left) Wong Pin Soon, and (Third from left) Ong See Kwang.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Christmas & New Year Celebration
at Thalassemia Treatment Centre (TTC)
in Hospital Queen Elizabeth (QEH)
The above event was successfully held at 11.00am on Thursday, 10th December, 2009 at the venue.
The 2-hours event was jointly organized by Lembaga Pelawat Hospital (LPH), PBS Wanita Tanjung Aru Division, UMNO Wanita Donggongon, and the Outreach Charity Group, for the benefits of the patients of Thalassemia who are mostly made up of children.
In opening of the event, Mr. Chu Kong Ming, Chairman of the LPH, said that he thanked all the organizing partners in helping to make the event a success. He noted there have been encouraging trends of more concerned caring for the Thalassemia patients from the government and its leaders. He particularly admires the active roles and supports of Datin Mary Yong (Wong Siow Lee)（拿丁黄秀丽）), the wife of YB Datuk Yong Oi Fah and also the Wanita Head of PBS Wanita Tanjung Aru, on the caring and welfare of the Thalassemia sufferers in the region.
Apart from that, Datin Mary Yong is also the Chairman of a Thalassemia society by the name of 'Prihatim Ibu Bapa Kanak-Kanak Thalassemia' in Kudat.
Co-organizer of the event, Wanita UMNO Donggongon, headed by Puan Nining Ballard, said that government through various welfare departments, agencies, and bodies, has been extending its helps, via various channels and forms, to these unfortunate group of the society.
Also a Deputy treasurer and member of the LPH, she wished the little token of the LPH and UMNO wanita movement can bring some joys to the sufferers during the festive season.
Puan Nining urged the public to be generously in donating their blood to the hospital where their contribution can help the Thalassemia patients tremendously.
Puan Maria Sandra Sho, who is the head of the Outreach Charity Group, and also the Deputy Secretary and member of the LPH, wished the society donate generously their old cloths and toys for the junior patients of Thalassemia which will surely help in their treatment of the disease.
The LPH would like to thank the generosity of Datin MaryYong and her group for the mouthwatering cake, fruits, and drinks; Puan Nining and her group for the biscuit, confectionery, cookies, crackers, and snacks; and Puan Maria Sandra Sho and her group for helping out in the event.
Especially mentioned are the various persons who attended the event, and helped, as follows:-
Personnel at the QEH's Thalassemia Treatment Centre especially Sister Irene; Ms. Catherine Yong, Ms. Grace Yong, and Wendy from Wanita PBS Tanjung Aru Division; the Secretary of the Wanita UMNO Donggongon - Ms. Florence Sua, Welfare Chairman of UMNO Wanita Donggongon - Puan Monica Apuk, Wanita UMNO Donggongon members Ms. Noridah Samat and Ms. Mary Jadion; and, Ms. Earlyn Lee and Caroline Manson from The Outreach Charity Group.
En. Wong Pin Soon （王平顺）, En. Dexter Lim （林明源）(The Secretary of LPH), and En. Ong See Kwang （翁书光） of the LPH were also presented in the function.
LPH would like to take this opportunity to wish the public 'Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year'.
Chu Kong Ming (朱刚明）
Chairman
Hospital Visitor Board (Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
e-mail: ckmalph@gmail.com
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