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Sabah needs a Health Ministry

Published on: Monday, April 28, 2025 Published on: Mon, Apr 28, 2025 By: David Thien Text Size: Dr Rundi speaking at the event. A SABAH Ministry of Health can many of the present shortcomings in a smart private sector partnership to ensure that the standard of health care in Sabah is not reduced over the years as seen with the lack of funds issues on infrastructure decay from lack of maintenance and rebuilding. Apart from this, the Ministry of Education should work closely with the federal Ministry of Health including in diet, dental care, physical and mental health screening etc. of Sabah's future generations. Education should imbue those youngsters with a culture of healthy habits and keen awareness of good dietary intake, healthy lifestyle like exercise, healing knowledge, and being mentally fit according to private and public sector medical professionals from all over Sabah at the Kota Kinabalu Wetland Ramsar premises where the session was held. In rural areas, there is need to have MoUs with the nearest private clinics that have X-Ray machine, lab facilities to share such equipment with rural clinics that lack these basic needs, and collaborate with private GPs in a sustainable private public partnership. There are calls to set up health clubs in schools, where visits by medical staff can motivate students to pursue a career in medicine. Retired medical staff willing to work should be accorded on call opportunities as caregivers. These staff can continue a career in nursing homes or elderly home care facilities. There is urgent need to identify and provide land to expand health facilities like the Klinik Desa in Likas that needs upgrading but no suitable site was made available by the Government, aside from renting other new premises with adequate parking space. Many hospitals that are more than 30 years are prone to fire and floods. The hospital in Tuaran with a population of some 130,000 is packed with patients, needing the expansion of service. Old hospitals have no wifi link with specialists. They lack modern equipment and there are not enough medical devices or machines for patient care. The event organised by Sabar (Sabah Action Body Advocating Rights) was coordinated by Lim Hock Seong and chaired by ex-Sabah Medical Director Dr Christina Rundi, who is also current Sabah Medical Association (SMA) President.