Confirmed! 1MDB PM Najib’s Umno-led federal government facing ‘cash flow’ problems

Confirmed! 1MDB PM Najib’s Umno-led federal government facing ‘cash flow’ problems

So, the Malaysian Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has responded to media reports that certain public hospital departments are facing “cash flow problems” (Read this for context: http://victorlim2016.blogspot.my/2016/10/no-economic-crisis-in-1mdb-malaysia.html

Online news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) quoted Noor Hisham as saying: “The increasing number of people seeking its services is putting pressure on its financial resources.

“To ensure crucial health services are not disrupted, the Health Ministry is evaluating the extent of our financial shortcomings, and optimising and reallocating our limited resources to wherever it is needed the most.

“This is to ensure our laboratories will continue to perform crucial diagnostic investigations.”

No News Is Bad News respects that Noor Hisham is honest with his response to the issue, unlike most other “political” administrators who will just deny anything negative that is raised.

However, Noor Hisham has failed to try to pacify or assure Malaysians that all is well.

The crux of the issue or matter is that it is still a “cash flow” problem!

So, the Umno-led federal government is unable to provide more allocations for the Health Ministry? Please! No excuses for not coming up with more supplementary allocations for the Health Ministry! Period!

But 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Prime Minister Najib Razak and wife can go globe-trotting and shopping to their hearts’ content?

Just what is Najib and his federal government’s priority in its annual allocations? Buying submarines and fighter jets, etc, are more important than public health?

"Health Ministry to optimise available money

FMT Reporters

| October 7, 2016

Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says the increasing number of people seeking its services is putting pressure on its financial resources.

PETALING JAYA: About three million more patients have sought treatment from government health clinics in the first five months of this year compared with the same period last year.

This, Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, added, had forced the Health Ministry to re-evaluate its financial resources.

Dr Noor Hisham said the demand had put pressure on the ministry’s existing resources.

“To ensure crucial health services are not disrupted, the Health Ministry is evaluating the extent of our financial shortcomings, and optimising and reallocating our limited resources to wherever it is needed the most.

“This is to ensure our laboratories will continue to perform crucial diagnostic investigations,” he said in a Facebook posting.

Dr Noor Hisham backed his claims with data. The ministry noted an 8 per cent increase in the number of patients visiting public health clinics from January to May this year, compared with a similar period in 2015.

Similarly, nearly 45,000 additional hospital admissions were seen from January to June this year compared with the same period last year.

He added that the high cost of health services remained one of the biggest challenges of any healthcare system in the world, especially when the demand for the service continued to increase.

“As we strive to provide excellent health services at reasonable costs with high satisfaction to the rakyat, surely the demand for the health services will also increase,” he added.

Looking forward, Dr Noor Hisham said the ministry intended to translate these challenges into opportunities to be more efficient and effective by “avoiding unnecessary duplication and by cutting wastage to achieve better outcomes”.

In Budget 2016, the Government had allocated RM52 million for 328 1Malaysia clinics and RM4.6 billion for vaccination, consumables and medicines in public hospitals and the opening of 33 brand new 1Malaysia clinics.

Budget 2016 also contained plans to build 5 new hospitals – in Pasir Gudang, Kemaman, Pendang, Maran and Cyberjaya – and for the Kajang General Hospital to be renovated."