Dr Zaliha’s prescription for well being companies

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 3 — Newly appointed Well being Minister, Dr Zaliha Mustafa has pledged to deal with points involving the location of graduate docs and the path for specialists in addition to offering higher well being companies to satisfy folks’s wants.

Dr Zaliha stated different points she’s going to concentrate on are associated to the marginalised, infrastructure and varied well being and hospital wants, psychological well being and provide of medication.

“Definitely an instantaneous precedence is to look at preparations for Price range 2023 that will probably be tabled in Parliament beginning on Dec 19. Hopefully, the well being sector will probably be given a complete allocation which might meet the wants,” she stated in a press release posted on her Fb web page at present.

She stated she hoped that civil servants and medical practitioners will assist her to make each plan of the Ministry of Well being (MOH) successful.

The Johor-born native stated the expertise, experience and tenacity of civil servants and medical practitioners are extremely anticipated in order that the nation’s well being sector could be on par with the well being companies of developed international locations.

“The appointment as Minister of Well being is a superb belief entrusted to me. Alhamdulillah, the swearing-in ceremony has been accomplished with the approval of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.

“I consider the Ministry of Well being is essential as a result of it’s the principal focus of Malaysians, particularly within the post-pandemic period of Covid-19,” she stated.

The Sekijang Member of Parliament who was born on June 28, 1964, took the oath of workplace earlier than Al-Sultan Abdullah at Istana Negara at present, along with two Deputy Prime Ministers and 24 ministers within the unity authorities Cupboard line-up introduced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday.

Dr Zaliha additionally described the well being portfolio as one thing near her coronary heart as she began her profession in medication in 1989 at Sultanah Aminah Hospital Johor Bahru.

“Alhamdulillah, the tenth Prime Minister (Anwar) has listened to the voice of the grassroots and the folks for this portfolio to be held by a medical practitioner and this matter has already been fulfilled,” she stated, including that it was an indication that the folks of this nation pay nice consideration to well being companies which is the basic want of all teams. — Bernama