15 More Days To Registration Deadline For Clinics

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- Private clinics have 15 more days before the Oct 31 deadline to register under the Private Healthcare Facilities Services Act 1998 (PHFSA) or face action.
Director General of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said that by Nov 1, the focus of the ministry's enforcement would be on unregistered clinics run by registered or unregistered doctors or quacks.
Until Oct 11, about 30 per cent of the estimated 8,000 clinics had applied for registration and the government would not defer the implementation of the regulation, he said in a statement issued, here Monday.
He said: "Our priority in enforcement is to rid the country of healthcare premises or services run by unregistered medical practitioners, bogus doctors or quacks providing modern healthcare services.
"We will raid such premises and take the owners, practitioners and quacks that provide such services to task, with the help of the public," he said.
Dr Mohd Ismail said those running unregistered clinics could face a fine of up to RM300,000 or six years jail, or both.