Carian mengenai topik private hospitals

Come September 1st, Bank Negara Malaysia will require all insurers and takaful operators to offer consumers an option to purchase medical and health insurance and takaful products with a copayment feature. What does it mean for the healthcare sector, and how will this affect patients? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to independent health policy analyst, Dr Chua Hong Teck.

Come September 1st, Bank Negara Malaysia will require all insurers and takaful operators to offer consumers an option to purchase medical and health insurance and takaful products with a copayment feature. What does it mean for the healthcare sector, and how will this affect patients? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Azrul Mohd Khalib, CEO of the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy.

The antiviral drug Paxlovid to treat COVID-19 will be extended to private hospitals and clinics as well as teaching hospitals, said Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.

Cancer is among the leading causes of death in private hospitals at 34.95 pct, and the fourth in hospitals under the MOH, at 11.56 pct, with tobacco use as one of the main factors causing the disease.

The total number of categories four and five in the ICU and wards will soon increase beyond the available space within the public hospitals.

Only 22 or 12.6 per cent of the 175 private hospitals in Malaysia had been recognised as baby-friendly hospitals.

HLA aims to assist those who get admitted at private hospitals for COVID-19 treatments in categories three, four and five.

The capacity of beds in public and private hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in the Greater Klang Valley (GKV) area will be increased by repurposing some areas in the hospital into patient wards.

After successfully containing the virus for much of the pandemic, Vietnam has been facing record daily increases in cases since late April.

Dr Kuljit said APHM has also ensured that none of its members have prescribed Ivermectin.

As of today, almost 100 per cent of the designated COVID-19 ICU beds in private hospitals are taken up by COVID-19 Category 5 patients.

The move was based on the current COVID-19 situation at public hospitals particularly in the Klang Valley.

Some private hospitals have started administering COVID-19 vaccine doses to the general public today following the government's decision to allow private hospitals to be used as vaccination centres.

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Dr Kuljit hopes private healthcare workers can use special lanes at the roadblocks as often there are urgent emergencies to attend to.