Govt won't compel private healthcare sector to work with Health Ministry, says Dr Dzul

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The government will not make it mandatory for private healthcare providers to collaborate with the Health Ministry to extend medical care to the needy, says Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.  Earlier on Friday (Feb 23), the Health Minister witnessed the memorandum of understanding signing between his ministry and IHH Healthcare to renew its extended care to a new batch of 500 needy cancer patients in the latter's hospitals nationwide free of charge.  Read more at http://tinyurl.com/2u9f5a3w  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 What we witnessed this morning, most importantly, is the renewed memorandum of understanding

00:15 with IHH.

00:17 And thank you very much IHH Malaysia to provide care and treatment for another 500 cancer

00:23 patients from MOH hospitals in Malaysia through IHH Hospital Network, namely Pantai Hospital,

00:34 Glen Eagle Hospital and Prince Codd Medical Centre, a programme that is known as the Live

00:41 Renewed Cancer Radiotherapy Corporate Responsibility Programme.

00:46 And as well, we also witnessed the Glen Eagle Hospital launch of the Emergen-Singh.

00:55 The MOU continues to support the National Strategic Plan for Cancer Control Programme,

01:00 ending 2025 from 2021, to widen access to care and treatment for cancer patients in

01:06 the country, building on continuing collaboration between MOH and IHH Malaysia.

01:13 And you know very well that the World Cancer Day that celebrated 4th February last week,

01:21 we had the theme of closing the gap.

01:24 And closing the gap reminds us seriously and critically of those that have been denied

01:30 or those that did not get access to treatment, let alone screening.

01:38 And cancer presents the number three killer after IHD, Neurosurgery, COPD, Epidemiology

01:46 and others, and then comes cancer as the cause of premature death in Malaysia.

01:53 We want to see greater collaboration of public-private synergy and working together, and particularly

02:00 to mitigate and alleviate an increasing and pressing challenge of cancer, which we should

02:09 undertake a war on cancer very soon, if it is going to be very challenging, as stated

02:15 by some specialists, that we will double in 2040 or 2045, by way of mobility, by way of

02:26 cases.

02:27 Dr Sri, you mentioned in your speech that there is no other option but to work with

02:34 the private sector, especially the need to top up the GDP.

02:40 So under your National Health Reform proposals, would you make it mandatory for other private

02:47 hospitals besides IHH to extend care to the top four killer diseases, such as the, I mean

02:56 with the model of IHH?

02:59 Yeah, of course, a very important question.

03:02 But I would believe that in the way of a Mandani government and the way I would provide stewardship

03:09 in MOH is to make the private sector and the private healthcare players to understand that

03:17 the way forward is indeed to collaborate and partner with MOH.

03:23 And I stress that the critical prerequisite perhaps is to enhance value-based delivery.

03:33 And by that, I mean when we have the capability of doing a strategic purchase from a single

03:40 purchaser of an MOH entity, whatever that may be, XYZ, PH Corp and others, other possibilities,

03:53 what is most important for the private sector to understand that the way forward is to collaborate

04:00 and to work with MOH.

04:04 Because as a minister and as MOH, we are not just, we are in fact the custodian of health

04:12 for both public and the private sectors.

04:15 And I wouldn't want to say that we would make it mandatory.

04:18 Of course, that would not be possible, no, no required for the time being.

04:26 But I think it's most important for the private sector players, APHM particularly and others,

04:32 big ones like IHH and as well KPJs, that they themselves, out of their own conviction and

04:40 out of their own commitment to come on board with us as to enhance not just infectious

04:49 disease pandemic kind of thing, those were the days that you would really help us a lot.

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