Depressing
Here we go again. Our operating time has been cut down again. I might as well take leave for the whole of December. Reason — acute shortage of anaesthetist!! Only 4 to run the whole Department and hospital! 2 on maternity leave, 2 leaving for subspeciality interest and another 2 leaving to private! One of those leaving to private is irritated with the Ministry of Health as after having served for so long he is stuck at my grade due to the Ministry’s incapabilities. The other is leaving right after her gazettment because she knows she would be stuck at the intern/houseman grade for the few years to come also thanks to the Ministry’s incapabilities.
Don’t they see the problem! Now we can cut because we don’t have OT time and thus we have to push our cases which are not urgent further and who suffers - patients! My waiting list of 2 weeks is now 3 months for any patient who need surgery.That is the amount of cases we have postponed!
Can I blame those who leave to private - No! because what they get is insufficient for them as a family and the Ministry does not seem to show any damn bloody concern!(sorry) and worse this looks like it is taking a turn for the worse with no hopeful future!
I wish the public will have more say about what they want in the government service hospitals. This is their hospital and they have the power to mould it to their needs that it be an acceptable if not a good hospital to be in service in return. How can you expect the service to improve if the staffing is so poor and the medical welfare is ridiculous in every way!
We should strive for a better Malaysia and this would not happen if everybody just accepts everything around them blindly! The public must be opinionated and be the voice of change and tell the government what they want rather than the reverse!
For me I think e should get rid of the Public Service Department and let the Ministry of Health be run by a commision of its own without being affliated to the PSD or JPA in anyway!
December 1st, 2006 at 6:11 am
Agreed. The top brass more interested in issues pertaining to the mouth-frothing, keris wielding Krishamudins, who has got who into bed (MP and Senator story), khalwat stories on internet, bolehnauts playing gasing and making teh tarik on air! and God knows what more! Govt should instead concentrate on EDUCATION to produce critical-thinking citizens, improving HEALTH conditions for rakyat….haiyoo…mau cakap sudah kering air liur ohhhh!!
Cant you like advertise your blog reading to the IMPORTANT BIG WIGS in your health ministry? It may help to get your stuff noticed.
December 1st, 2006 at 9:49 am
pitiful condition. supposed to be one of the good and quality hospital. If your argument is fully supported ,send to the top gun with out fear or favour. very concerned.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Some suggestions:
1. Be a blog-activist or MMA activist. Don’t cross the line and become a terrorist, ok?
2. Vote with your service. Just as your anaesthetist friends did.
3. Vote with your vote.
For the moment, go for your PTK and get your promotion. If they don’t give it to you pronto… see numbers 1 to 3 above.
December 4th, 2006 at 11:49 am
The JPA 0r PSD never read blog nor listen to MMA. They are like the three monkeys - SEE NO EVIL HEAR NO EVIL AND maybe no the third - hmm.. 2 monkeys only!
Vote with service — what i am doing now! Happy but depressed. Hmm Strange combo but humans are complex so is our government with 2 monkey policy
Vote with my vote — if I have my way - i would do both private and government like what the guys in HUKM and UMMC are doing. Rather than just one. Then again if diving make me crazy enough — ha! ha! HA! — i will follow you!
December 5th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Hahaha.. i like that 2 monkey allegory.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Thankiu thankiu only during my manic moments such things will I think off!!
December 6th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more. I am another guy trying to survive in govt service.
However I don’t see things changing for the better, at least not by public demand. Our general population is docile by nature. Most if not all have accepted the ’suboptimal’ care provided by the short-handed staff. Those who can afford private treatment have left, leaving those with no options in govt hospitals. This socioeconomically marginalized group is the most ‘compliant’ of all and will not kick up a fuss, at least officially, leaving their horror stories to the neighborhood kopitiam.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
thanks for visiting huajern. but this must change - what i do is if the patient is not happy with service or medication I actually encourage them to make a complaint with the Pengarah or whoeveer they feel the need to.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Tried that before in my previous hospital without much success. The lower the education/socioeconomic status, the lower the chance of a complaint. Still remember HO days in HKL, where patients came in by the truckloads. The medical wards were little better than battlefield hospitals. Yet no one complained. Same here in JB.
December 6th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
Aha you are in JB, I know the condition! Yes - it is bad but there must be a way! The public must be educated this change i see in the Klang Valley and I hear also in Ipoh Valley!