Not wise to go semi-private

IT IS disheartening to note that the Putrajaya and Selayang Hospitals will be accorded semi-private status 'Two government hospitals to adopt ‘full-paying patient’ concept' (The Star, July 28) in an effort to stem the brain drain from the government to the private sector. 

The party that stands to lose most are the post-graduate medical and surgical trainees currently practising in these two hospitals and this problem is just the tip of the iceberg.