PUTRAJAYA – The Health Ministry (MoH) will hold regular meetings with hospital directors and stakeholders to identify the causes and find solutions to various issues occurring in health facilities nationwide.
Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa said MoH is also now awaiting feedback on the effectiveness of several measures taken to overcome problems such as congestion at hospital emergency departments.
“Among the first things we want to do is an audit, and we also want to see the effectiveness of measures that we have taken, such as changes to standard (operating) hours for health clinics attached to hospitals.
“The latest, for example, is at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, where they make sure only patients with emergency cases are treated at the emergency department, while cold cases are channelled to the clinics.
“They felt that move is the best for their facility, and it has to be discussed in regular meetings, as well as through monitoring, to see results,” she told reporters here today.
Dr Zaliha said MoH had also deployed several officers to the ground to gather feedback and information on the real situation at public hospitals and health clinics.
“All this information will be gathered and we will see what the best ways to solve the issues are,” she said.
Dr Zaliha said in a tweet yesterday that MoH will continue to listen and work on identifying solutions pertaining to issues in hospital emergency departments. – Bernama, February 7, 2023
