The day private equity stood still

ha. hari ni gua cabut dari comfort zone aku. aku pasti benda benda menarik akan berlaku dalam industri minyak dan liquid. aku akan belajar welding, aku akan belajar pasal fluids, aku akan belajar pasal besi, aku akan belajar pasal sales dan aku akan jadi orang minyak no 1.

aku dedicate lagu kat bawah ni untuk analyst analyst maut dan kepada semua yang aku akan tinggal kan.

safe trip!

Jack "layan bai lagu dua dua tu. memang Heavy" Lingam

A stint of Malaysian Health Atlas

Hensem tak aku time muda

Salam semua,

Amacam? Semua ok ke tak ok? Aku ringan ringan aja. Anyways, setelah membaca posting maut dari pada encik sharpener kepada yam tuan punya Negara ini. Kesian aku tengok si abang FZ ini dengan migraine yang di alaminya, tetapi bila lu orang calling dia sure dapat dengar deringan yang agak tight yang boleh bikin lu orang nak shuffle macam kuzi (di filem gila gila remaja).

Setelah sekian aku lama tak tulis orang putih, aku nak try bagi pandangan aku terhadap pandangan encik FZ.

Here we go.

With the current state of the Malaysian hospital to tell, the world health organization (WHO) has rated the current facilities in Malaysia as on par with the UK and the states. However, during the study undertook by the WHO in 2005, both private and public facilities were measured. Currently, the country has 135 public hospitals nationwide with the population of 24 million. The shortage of medical professionals in Malaysia has not been a new topic which we all have been grumbling about. With the perks offered by private hospitals, there is no chance the ministry of health (MOH) can compete with the offers from their counterpart to grab Malaysian best for public hospitals. Unless, when one felt the obligation to serve the country like a terminator. With bunch of legislations created to standardize the procedure avant-etre a doctor, the government may be able to bond its young doctors in the public hospitals for at least 5 years before one being caught by the more established, well funded and fit hospitals.

With the open market or the so called quasi-capitalist model which our government is practicing, sorry to say, the medical industry is changing in Malaysia. From the research conducted by Nielsen earlier this year, visits in public hospital have dropped over the past 2 years while visits to private hospitals had increased by 15%. Reasons from this analysis were primarily due to fundable insurance policies in the Malaysia and the massive opening of private medical centres such as K.O Medical Centre in Subang, Normah Medical centre in Kuching and many other private centres all over the country.

Yes, the market is changing for both Public and Private medical centres. In the private medical sector, medical centres are becoming more niche and more specialize on the services which they offers. Unlike the past where by the private medical sector competes with public sectors. Now, both private and public are relying on each for patients. The public hospitals do realize that they cannot provide an ideal service for all and if they cannot cater a patient in the government backed hospitals, they will be referred to a specialist in a private medical centre. In the private sector itself the playground had changed from a large scale to a smaller scale to reduce cost effectiveness, efficiency and over reliance on debt nor equity. We have not seen a rapid establishment of a large scale medical centre over the past one year, whereby there are more small scale medical centers were established. To name a few, entities such as KL Heart Care, Primanora Medical centre, Roopi Medical Centre, Loudres medical Centre and others has been developed to provide services for both private patients as well as public patients through public hospitals.

Not only that, with the allotment of Malaysian government budgets for the healthcare industry is considered as small. With the $ 4.8 billion allocated to enhance health facilities and provide equipments, increase supply of medicines, develop human resources, intensify research and enforcement activities as well as to build more hospitals. So how much was allotted through our monthly income tax payments to the government for health care? $ 452 per pax (currently our labour force consists of 10.6 million personnel).

Apart from that, RM 26 million was allocated to increase the allowance of 3,800 SPECIALIST in the public sectors which is equivalent to RM 6,842.11 annual increment in allowance for medical specialist or equivalent to RM 570.18 increment in the monthly allowance for these specialist. So how many doctors do we have over all? In Malaysia, we have at least 90,000 personnel working in the Health industries. The figure was obtained from WHO and it consists of both doctors and midwifery personnel. Don’t you think the government should think about the upstream personnel instead of focusing on the specialists (downstream).

Sorry to say Mr. Tuxman, I don’t think that you be getting extra-plus action with your darling wife through the current budget or model.

Plus with the current short fall on exports this year, I don’t think that the budget for the year 2010 will be so great.

The government should not only focus solely on the health care industry. The government should scale through the whole reward scheme in the public sectors to attract high quality personnel which can provide quality services for the public. Why? They are the caretaker of the country.

There are various approaches which the government can look through. They are health and wellness, retirement and savings, time away, non fiscal benefits and non monetary benefits. Last call duit pon bukan boleh bawak masuk kubur.

Jack “ha, cakap banyak, jom join gomen pastu kita buat union” Lingam

Open Post to the Malaysian Government

Dear Sirs,

I hope you would consider taking some time off from your busy schedule running the country, and take some time to read this petty ramblings of mine. To date, I have been a citizen of Malaysia for the last 25 years, left the country sometime back to New Zealand for a short stint and just cant wait to head back home. Malaysia has always been the place where my heart is, where my blood is, and with current rumbles and tumbles, I will always hold Malaysia up high in my heart.

I was reading through the online version of one of the most circulated local daily, The Star, and cant help but to notice this article. The article is a very good news, from my point of view. Especially when we talk about the additional number of doctors and nurses that the Government is planning to hire. With the current H1N1 pandemic, I am certain this move, though was not quick enough, will prepare our nation, just in case anything unthink of would happen.

However, I would have to say, that hiring 5,000 more doctors and 5,000 more nurses, would not really tackle the major issue. I am not referring to the pandemic, but i am referring to the social welfare of the doctors and nurses currently practising in local hospitals. I am a proud husband of a doctor who is currently practising in one of the hospitals in Malaysia. She is a charm. She work herself off, enjoying it, and she won't give it up for the rest of the world. But, from my point of view, with the taxing schedule at work, balancing the hospital requirements and patients with a needy and clingy husband and a child (maybe soon!), I predict, when she finishes her bond with the Public Service Department, she will be prised away by the private hospitals, which will be able to provide her a less hectic schedule, bigger remuneration package, and a better lifestyle.

I have asked her opinion on working as a private practitioner, she is against it. She said "I owe the country a great deal of debt, and i dont mean financially." But how can that sentiment alone, would toughen her up when there are parties, ready to cater for the skills she owns with better benefits? I had an enjoyable moment reading how one of the top brass in your administration blew his top off at the Accident and Emergency Unit in one of the hospitals recently. Made me think, these doctors, are just waiting to be sniped by the authorities! It turned out the doctors that were told off by the top-shot, was just having a break from attending a patient, and one of them had just finished his shift. Talk about redemption.

I think the government needs to speed up the hiring process for doctors and nurses. Make it your a priority. And, refine the remuneration package. You are expecting them to work 10 hours daily, being efficient at the same time, with minimum amount of mistakes occurences, ( i mean, you're dealing with somebody's life, and limbs here.) but with the inflation rate, cost of living, you're giving them a rather small pay packet each month. Top service, cheap price. Isnt that what all we Malaysians after? Maybe we ought to change the mindset.

I have no intentions to offend, nor do i want to step on anybody's toes, but the plight of these wonderful people that we turn to while having bodysores, headache, and the people we depend on with our life, with scalpels, and torniquets in their hands, may need some attention. Maybe to provide handsome pay is not feasible to the nation's budget, but at least, make their working experience a pleasant one. I hope you would consider my suggestions, but hey, its just an opinion.

Yours Sincerely,
FZ
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