Category: Health

Datuk Lee Kim Sai asked to explain who is blocking the lifting of the clamp-down of the free movement of inmates and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium, if it is not Selangor and Rawang MCA?

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 23rd July 1979:

Datuk Lee Kim Sai asked to explain who is blocking the lifting of the clamp-down of the free movement of inmates and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium, if it is not Selangor and Rawang MCA?

The Chairman of the Selangor MCA Liaison Committee, Datuk Lee Kim Sai, has denied that the Selangor and Rawang MCA have been using their political connections to block the lifting of the clamp-down on free movement of inmates and visitors at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium, which has caused great hardships to the inmates, resulting in financial losses from loss of sales of flowers and fruits, and other inconveniences. Continue reading Datuk Lee Kim Sai asked to explain who is blocking the lifting of the clamp-down of the free movement of inmates and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium, if it is not Selangor and Rawang MCA?

Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 17th July 1979:

1. Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

Following the MAS-AEU dispute, and the full resumption of MAS services after the deregistration of the Airline Employees Union, the MAS management had taken back all its employees except for 31 workers. Continue reading Call on MAS management to take back the 33 MAS employees who have not been re-employed

Repeated call on Health Minister, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium and to issue a directive to Health Ministry officials to stop defaming Leprosarium picturing it as a ‘den of crime and sin’

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Saturday, 14th July 1979:

Repeated call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium and to issue a directive to Health Ministry officials to stop defaming Leprosarium picturing it as a ‘den of crime and sin’

I am very shocked by the reported comments of the Director-General of the Health Ministry, Tan Sri Dr. Raja Ahmad Noordin, in the Star on Thursday that the clamp-down on free movement of patients and visitors in Sungei Buloh Leprosarium was to rid it of drug addiction and prostitution. Continue reading Repeated call on Health Minister, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and visitors at Sungei Buloh Leprosarium and to issue a directive to Health Ministry officials to stop defaming Leprosarium picturing it as a ‘den of crime and sin’

DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Sungei Besi Mines DAP Branch in Petaling constituency on Tuesday, 12th July 1979 at 7p.m.

DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

The DAP welcomes the announcement by the Education Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, on the establishment of a third medical faculty in the country. Datuk Musa Hitam said the medical faculty would be sited in Kelantan, and listed three grounds for setting up the faculty there: Continue reading DAP welcomes government decision to establish a third medical faculty but wants to know whether its sitting in Kelantan, without teaching hospital and other supporting facilities, would cause delay to its establishment or affect medical standards

Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 11.7.1979:

Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

I call on the Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp-down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium as the Selangor Police do not regard the leper settlement as a ‘black area’ or security area. Continue reading Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Chong Hong Nyan, to lift the 24-hour clamp down on free movement of patients and inmates at the Sungei Buloh Leprosarium

Call on Acting Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed, to pay attention to the possibility of de-recognition of the MBBS degree of the University of Malaya by the United Kingdom General Medical Council

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, when addressing a meeting of branch leaders of DAP branches in the Tanjong Malim Parliamentary Constituency held at Slim River Branch on Friday, 30th Sept. 1977 at 7.30 p.m.

Call on Acting Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed, to pay attention to the possibility of de-recognition of the MBBS degree of the University of Malaya by the United Kingdom General Medical Council in five years time, and to take urgent steps to raise medical standards

Last month, when I addressed the Perak DAP State Sub-Committee on August 28, I expressed the general growing concern that the standards in the Medical Faculty in the University of Malaya, which had a high international reputation when it first started, had been suffering serious erosion of standards. Continue reading Call on Acting Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed, to pay attention to the possibility of de-recognition of the MBBS degree of the University of Malaya by the United Kingdom General Medical Council

Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

Last weekend, together with the DAP MP for Ipoh, Sdr Lim Cho Hock and the DAP State Assemblymen for Gopeng, Sdr P.Patto, I visited the Ipoh General Hospital to see a 17-year old boy from Jalong New Village, Sungei Siput, Leong Choon Hwa, who was injured and hospitalised on 13.8.1977.

The boy was not attended to by a doctor until some three hours after he was brought to the hospital on 13.8.1977. Continue reading Call for inquiry into why a 17-year old boy had to be amputated twice a fall from a tree

DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP MP for Kota Melaka, Y.B. Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Motion of Thanks on the Royal Address on Tuesday, 22nd March 1977

DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

This is the 20th anniversary of Malaysia since Independence in 1957, but the basic issues of nation building remain unresolved. Continue reading DAP wants legislative assurance that boards of managements of Chinese primary schools would not be wound up

Government medical brain drain

The Minister of Health, in reply to a question by my colleagues, the Member for Sungei Besi, said yesterday that since 1969, a total of 965 doctors have left the government service. If we look at the yearly figures, we will note that the number of doctors leaving the government service has been on the marked increase year after year.

Even more serious is the resignation of specialists from the government service. This year alone, some 20 specialists have resigned. The government can ill afford the loss of experienced and competent specialists suffering a great fall in the standard of medical standards in the hospitals. Continue reading Government medical brain drain

Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew, to instruct that anti-dengue posters in Chinese should be put up in all towns and new villages

DAP Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

1. Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew, to instruct that anti-dengue posters in Chinese should be put up in all towns and new villages to more effectively involve the people in the fight against the killer disease

Dengue fever has become the No.1 killer disease in Malaysia, wit death toll and victims mounting day by day, without let up. The Health Ministry, although it has some two years to combat this dengue fever, has proved to be helpless and hopeless to check the death march of dengue fever.

What is needed is clearly a more imaginative nation-wide campaign to fight dengue fever, involving all Malaysians, both in urban and rural areas. Continue reading Call on Health Minister, Tan Sri Lee Siok Yew, to instruct that anti-dengue posters in Chinese should be put up in all towns and new villages