Health Ministry should focus on its own problems

I WRITE as a doctor who has served 25 years in public service and another 25 as a private medical specialist. During that time, I was chairman of the Malaysian Medical Association’s (MMA) Schomos, which represents housemen, medical officers and specialists, for one year in 1994. Several years later, I was elected president of the Association of Specialists in Private Medical Practice Malaysia (ASPMPM).

During my time with the government, and even until recently, the World Health Organization regularly commended the Malaysian health service under the Health Ministry as one of the best in the world.