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WE HAVE GREAT DOCTORS AND DEDICATED NURSES, ALL OF THEM PROFESSIONAL IN THEIR TREATMENT OF THE SICK.
THE FACILITIES LET THEM DOWN.
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Star
Saturday January 11, 2014 MYT 8:45:14 AM
Sg Buloh docs losing their patience
by tashny sukumaran
Only the facade looks good: Visitors entering the Sungai Buloh Hospital. Doctors there are complaining of ill-equipped facilities that make treating patients a chore.
SUNGAI BULOH: After recovering from three days of dirty toilets and uncollected rubbish, Sungai Buloh Hospital has been hit with an air-conditioning malfunction, which shut down 12 of its 22 general operating theatres.
The breakdown happened after a fire on Thursday.
All elective surgery has been postponed and the hospital, which specialises in neurosurgery, orthopaedics and spine surgery, is using its six day-care OTs for emergency procedures, as well as the two in its emergency department. There are two more OTs in the maternity ward.
Elective surgeries include hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and hernia repairs.
Full story in your copy of The Star today.
Sg Buloh docs losing their patience
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Star
Saturday January 11, 2014 MYT 8:46:50 AM
Put off elective surgery, says dept
by loh foon fong
PETALING JAYA: Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Selangor Health Department has recommended the re-scheduling of non-life threatening elective surgery at the Sungai Buloh Hospital, which has been hit by an air-conditioning malfunction.
“In cases when there is a need, arrangements will be made to refer emergency cases to nearby hospitals,” he said.
Dr Noor Hisham said Radicare (M) Sdn Bhd was undertaking repairs and the installation a new uninterruptible power system (UPS).
He said the company would also bring in temporary portable UPS units to enable five more OTs to be used by next week.
Full story in your copy of The Star today.
Put off elective surgery, says dept
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Apart from Selayang, hospitals in Sungai Buloh, Kajang and Rawang were similarly affected.
Malaysiakini
12:14PM Jan 9, 2014
Hospitals drown in trash as Radicare switches staff
Garbage piled up and the toilets went uncleaned for a week at several hospitals in Selangor. This was due to long-time government contractor Radicare switching workers.
After receiving complaints from the public, Malaysiakini conducted a check at the Selayang Hospital and found rubbish bins overflowing with garbage while toilets were littered with wet tissues.
Hospital staff, speaking on condition of anonymity, apologised for the situation, saying that they have tried to keep their respective areas clean.
“That’s all we can do since the cleaning staff have not come around,” said a nurse.
In response to Malaysiakini’s queries a day later, Radicare confirmed that five hospitals were affected due to constraint in getting cleaners after it switched contractors from Harta Maintenance Sdn Bhd to Alam Bersih Sdn Bhd.
“Due to escalating cost pressure, Radicare had issued an open tender in 2013 and Alam Bersih was awarded the contract for cleaning services for nine hospitals in Selangor,” Radicare’s corporate communications manager Nurul Huda Arifin said in an email.
After the problem surfaced, Harta Maintenance has been reinstated she said, but the company “faced difficulty to immediately bring in sufficient manpower to clean the hospitals”.
Hospital drowns in trash as Radicare switches staff – Malaysiakini
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SERDANG HOSPITAL IS, OF COURSE, INFAMOUS/NOTORIOUS FOR ITS LEAKING CEILING.
See: Serdang Hospital ceiling collapses: the 7th time!
Now, it comes under scrutiny for its unhygienic state.
…at the Selayang Hospital, Hazlan Ibrahim, 52, who is looking after his mother-in-law, said a hospital should be clean so that patients can be cured.
A patient, Shuhaida Shahira Syazali,18, who was warded for a few days said she was disgusted with the dirty bathrooms and avoided using them.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/fear-loathing-two-unhygienic-selangor-hospitals-225800301.html
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The other hospital is Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang
Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah HTAR
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YAHOO! NEWS MALAYSIA
Fear and loathing at two unhygienic Selangor hospitals
The Malay Mail Online
PETALING JAYA, Jan 10 — Staff and patients expressed their disappointment over the unhygienic conditions at two hospitals in Selangor.
A medical officer from Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah in Klang said, for the past nine days the hospital had been in the most unhygienic condition.
“Bins were overflowing, toilets and wards were not cleaned.
“It was a horrible situation to be in. The wards were in a deplorable state and the nauseating stench from the toilets was disgusting,” he said.
The staff member, who requested anonymity, said the hospital authority had even instructed the nurses to clean the toilets to ensure the stench was kept under control.
“Cleaning toilets is definitely not the job of a nurse, it has been a horrible environment to work in,” he said.
He said, this was not the first time the hospitals faced this situation. The same problem occurred two years ago.
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Visitors and employees at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital were outraged with the level of cleanliness in the hospital for the past week.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/fear-loathing-two-unhygienic-selangor-hospitals-225800301.html
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