Category: Hospitals

Cabinet decision to exempt foreign doctors working in the private sector from the three-year compulsory service with government hospitals a gross discrimination against Malaysian doctors and should be immediately reversed

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, April 8, 1993:

Cabinet decision to exempt foreign doctors working in the private sector from the three-year compulsory service with government hospitals a gross discrimination against Malaysian doctors and should be immediately reversed

The Cabinet decision to allow foreign doctors to work in the private sector and be exempted from the three-year compulsory service with government hospitals is a gross discrimination against Malaysian doctors and should be immediately reversed. Continue reading Cabinet decision to exempt foreign doctors working in the private sector from the three-year compulsory service with government hospitals a gross discrimination against Malaysian doctors and should be immediately reversed

The Kuala Lumpur General Hospital should re-establish a heart unit to cater for the needs for poor heart patients

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 4th March 1993:

The Kuala Lumpur General Hospital should re-establish a heart unit to cater for the needs for poor heart patients

The Health Minister, Datuk Lee Kim Sai said last Saturday that a Cabinet committee had been set up to find ways to help poor heart patients seeking treatment at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur. Continue reading The Kuala Lumpur General Hospital should re-establish a heart unit to cater for the needs for poor heart patients

DAP calls for full public inquiry as to how the government’s nationwide Hepatitis B programme of newborns and children turned into a Hepatitis B infection programme

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 7th July 1991

DAP calls for full public inquiry as to how the government’s nationwide Hepatitis B programme of newborns and children turned into a Hepatitis B infection programme

A month ago, panic was created among new parents all over the country over the babies BCG over-dosage in government hospitals. Continue reading DAP calls for full public inquiry as to how the government’s nationwide Hepatitis B programme of newborns and children turned into a Hepatitis B infection programme

Proposal by Mahathir to allow foreign doctors to practise in private is most startling

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, June 8 1991:

Proposal by Mahathir to allow foreign doctors to practise in private is most startling

The proposal by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr.Mahathir Mohamed, to allow foreign doctors to work in private hospitals an even set up clinics is most startling. Continue reading Proposal by Mahathir to allow foreign doctors to practise in private is most startling

Medical Places For Non-Malay Students

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday, 8th June 1981 on the motion to extend the Parliamentary resolution requiring new doctors to perform three years of compulsory government service)

Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-bumiputra students for local medical places to help solve the acute doctor shortage in the country

The requirement of new doctors to perform three years of compulsory government service was introduced 10 years ago as a measure to counter the acute doctor shortage in the hospitals and government service. Continue reading Medical Places For Non-Malay Students

Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking at the Taiping DAP branch Dinner in Taiping on Friday, 30th January 1981 at 8 p.m.

Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year.

Throughout the country hospital, the government faces an acute shortage of doctor and in particular, specialists. Every year, Malaysia has to recruit doctors from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh, countries which need doctors even more than Malaysia, to help fill some of the vacancies in Malaysia hospitals. Continue reading Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year

Call on Malaysian Government to immediately grant provisional registration to some 50 Malaysian graduates from medical colleges in India and Taiwan so that they can work as housemen in Malaysian hospitals

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, on Tuesday, 11th Oct. 1977:

Call on Malaysian Government to immediately grant provisional registration to some 50 Malaysian graduates from medical colleges in India and Taiwan so that they can work as housemen in Malaysian hospitals

There are now some 50 Malaysian graduates of Indian and Taiwan medical colleges who have been denied provisional registration and cannot begin their housemanship. The Ministry of Health claims that they come from Unscheduled Medical Colleges, and have therefore to sit for Qualifying Examination for Doctors set by the Ministry of Health, before they are permitted provisional registration to enable to do their housemanship. Continue reading Call on Malaysian Government to immediately grant provisional registration to some 50 Malaysian graduates from medical colleges in India and Taiwan so that they can work as housemen in Malaysian hospitals

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

Call to University authorities and Government to maintain high medical standard

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary- General, Lim Kit Siang, to the Perak DAP State Sub- Committee meeting in Ipoh on Sunday, 28th August 1977 at 2 p.m.

Call to University authorities and Government to maintain high medical standard and ensure that doctors produced locally are recognised internationally.

It was reported in the local press two days ago that the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Universiti Kebangsaan, Datuk Paduka Prof. (Dr.) Abdul Wahad Ariff, had disclosed that his Medical Faculty was trying to get the Medical Council of the United Kingdom to recognize its degrees. Continue reading Call to University authorities and Government to maintain high medical standard