00:00Imagine health clinics functioning as cottage hospitals, where minor procedures are carried out without having the need to go to hospitals.
00:10This is among the efforts taken by the Health Ministry to decongest government hospitals that are already quite packed with patients.
00:18Inpatient beds are set up at such clinics, especially in remote areas, and turned into cottage hospitals.
00:25Health Minister Datuk Siri Dr Zulkifli Ahmad said in an interview recently that the Ministry is looking to expand the cottage hospital model, where there are currently two facilities offering such services.
00:37Already we have practised global surgery, getting all these lump and bumps of simple, simple, you know, procedures done in our case.
00:47These are the care models or improvement on what I call transformed primary care.
00:52The transformed primary care is to get us to shift emphasis of health care towards one that is really preventive and get appointment and follow up in the clinic so you get to decongest hospitals.
01:07And this is not particularly my role as such as a minister, but the director general with his team, you know, the technocrats, you know, about clinicians or doctors, both medical, surgical based.
01:18That's how they keep improving this. I really encourage them to do a lot more innovations so that we get to decongest hospitals.
01:25If properly, you know, arrange and strategise, KK could also, you know, take a lot of the load from hospital.
01:34He said patients also want to see improvements in the delivery system and waiting time at public healthcare facilities.
01:41People don't quite realise that digitalisation, you know, getting appointment, not just everyone coming, you know, the most heavy of the traffic of the day in the morning,
01:54so we can spread out for the whole day through, you know, much jafter appointments.
01:59And our CCMS, you know, clinic cloud-based clinic management system that has already rolled out for almost 170 KKs.
02:09End of the year, we hope to do 225. That will really allow us to just not manage patient care better, faster, but as well, you know, come with it is the appointment system and hence, you know, getting to, you know, record, tracking or whatever.
02:25Even wait time is reduced from two hours to half an hour. Almost like 70% of our KKs are experiencing it. We will continue to improve it.
02:35The minister said Malaysia has been underspending on healthcare for decades and coming up with novel approaches to address public healthcare issues.
02:44He said the ministry was given 45.3 billion ringgit this year to run healthcare facilities and programmes,
02:52but the allocation was still not really enough to upgrade dilapidated and old hospitals.
03:05We've been able to bring out the public and find out that people have been able to abide by them.
03:08We can't find out that people can also have their pardoned enough.
03:10They've got the money to ride and have a good deal with no other hospital.
03:13So we will be able to give out what the hospital says.
03:15We'll be able to carry out the next week.
03:17We'll be able to carry out our home.
03:19We'll be able to take out our home.
03:21We'll be able to carry out our home.
03:23We'll be able to carry out that family and that's what we will be able to do.
03:27At home we'll be able to carry out our conosco.
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