Pensioners face woes at UMMC

Pensioner Lim Ah Tee, 74, showing his medicine that helps lowers blood platelet count at his home in Subang, on Thursday, January 23, 2014. GLENN GUAN/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Universiti Malaya Medical Centre’s (UMMC) private pharmacy Pharm UMMC is no longer dispensing certain medicine to pensioners, causing inconvenience to thousands.

The hospital with one of the highest number of pensioners in the country suspended Oratis Services Sdn Bhd, the company that the Public Services Department (PSD) appointed to supply medication and medical devices not in hospitals’ formulary list (standard list) within its network of pharmacies. It was over non-payment issues.