Health services in crisis


Under strain: Patients needing urgent medical attention only to be greeted by a waiting room full of others who also need urgent care. — Photo taken from Nayli Majid’s tweet

PETALING JAYA: “Sometimes it is like a warzone”.

That is how healthcare workers describe their working condition at some public healthcare facilities.

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