Appeal for medicine, pensioners advised
KOTA KINABALU: Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek has advised pensioners who cannot get medicine from government hospitals to appeal to the ministry.
However, he pointed out that the ministry spends some RM7bil a year to provide healthcare services but the returns were only RM128mil.
“The people must realise that this is a heavy burden for the Government,” he said.
He was responding to complaints that some pensioners had been told to buy medicine from private pharmacies.
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