Plan to build nine new hospitals put off
PORT DICKSON: The construction of nine hospitals under the Eighth Malaysia Plan will be deferred and the RM10bil allocation used to address the shortage of support staff in existing ones instead.
Health Minister Datuk Chua Soi Lek said this proposal was made under the revised list of priority projects submitted to the Cabinet recently in which the ministry had recommended the money be spent to build more training facilities.
“We felt that parallel to the development of hospital and polyclinics, there is also an urgent need to equip the support personnel with the appropriate knowledge.
“That's why we decided to shelve the hospital projects to use the allotted funds for manpower training,” he said here Wednesday night.
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