By right, we should be placing more emphasis on the operating budget, since it takes up 93.1% (RM 24.7 billion), a lion’s share of the total MOH budget. Over half, or 60.9%, of the operating budget is reserved for the salaries and wages for a workforce of 268,014 in total. The number of positions in the Health Ministry has increased by 30.2% from 2010-2018, while the amount paid for emoluments in 2018 has risen 144.6% compared to 2010 . The health workforce is crucial in ensuring high standards of healthcare delivery, but this rise is only justifiable if the emolument rise converts to higher pay to retain quality talent.

Cut back on funding for supplies and services

Departments under the Medical Care (Perubatan) category will receive the largest amount RM13.2 billion, or a 53.4% of the total operating budget, followed by the Public Health (Kesihatan Awam) category (RM4.7 billion or 19.1%) (Figure 2). Worryingly, although the total sum of allocations for these two categories has increased compared to 2017, most of it is channelled towards emolument. Despite the functional importance of these two categories, the government has opted to cut back on funding for supplies and services for both categories (Figure 3). For Medical Care, the allocation for supplies and services shrank from RM5.17 billion in 2015 to RM3.92 billion in 2018, a difference of RM1.26 billion!

if no doctors wanna work who gonna dispense the medicine? bomoh?

those position are not necessary doctors lol

probably most is non medical personnel
for example photocopy machine supervisor
lol

no money for medicine, education.....but can do augmented reality

tell all patients to vote oppo

All citizen should be prepared to buy medical insurance.

Sooner or later.

Govt no more money.

The noble system is taxed by majority rakyats who dont seem to care about their own health... poor lifestyle choices and all. Campaign on eating right, anti-smokings/alcohol and pro-exercises failed to convert them. Just look at streets around us and the condition and habits of a typical Malaysian adult.

The victims are those poor rakyats with chronic disease due to their poor genes/birth defects    despite trying to be healthy.. still succumb to needing medical assistance till they die.

Just remove free medicine and ask patients to pay for their own medicine.
Janji bijan kaya

My friend work in hospital,

it is constantly lack of doctors and nurses.

What he/she said alot of time the patient are foreigners, but they have to pay full amount.

the lacking of medical staff was not cause by surge on Malaysian population, but increasing of foreigners

Yes true. Some countries like usa, doctors only give u prescriptions. You have to go to pharmacy to buy the ubat.

My friend work in hospital,

it is constantly lack of doctors and nurses.

What he/she said alot of time the patient are foreigners, but they have to pay full amount.

Imagine the amount of time spent treating the foreigners, instead of us Malaysian, hence the lacking of medical staff was not cause by surge on Malaysian population, but increasing of foreigners

cannot be lei
The number of positions in the Health Ministry has increased by 30.2% 
so those new positions are not medical staff lol

i seen my gov servant doctor brother, sister and her dr husband living a good life...



their salary must be big and stable

Not sure which hospital your friend is in but there are a lot of ppl say that many Malaysian with low income and some middle high income people cramp in gov hospitals.

they deserve it, u know how hard and risky their job is?
there's nothing to be jealous about.

i seen my gov servant doctor brother, sister and her dr husband living a good life...



their salary must be big and stable

yes bajet meningkat, what the fella need to show is how much is allocated for medicine alone. that would create more impact and shut other fellas up for sure. sendiri pun tak baca penuh nak lecture orang.

How good life?

Id think can afford double storey house and jap car.. 

But if wana say afford bungalow and new bmw /merc..  Thats quite unlikely unless they do a lot of outside work

collect GST but still no money. how ?

those position are not necessary doctors lol

probably most is non medical personnel
for example photocopy machine supervisor
lol

monopoly of drugs
monopoly of non-medical services(radi****)
paying salary for.deadwood staff
if can settle this can save a lot oredi

they deserve it, u know how hard and risky their job is?
there's nothing to be jealous about.

Doctor job in Malaysia is not risky until relative of patients threaten and succeed to kill them if the patient dies.

Happened in the US already, those guys deserve the money since they are gambling with their own lives.

It clearly said in the article BN cut the budget for supplies and service but increase salary. Its enough evidence for us to vote PH and change this. We need PH to support low income earners who can't afford medicine, not the other way round like what BN is doing.

Good move. Just prescribe the medicine and patients should go buy it at a pharmacy.

Doctors/Nurse are always in contact with germs and disease

Plus because doctors have to work long shift (36 hour shift), they have weaker immune system than normal.

Yes pay is high, but there is a price to pay

Summary ts butthurt doc earn better.

those position are not necessary doctors lol

probably most is non medical personnel
for example photocopy machine supervisor
lol

Charge them higher (full amout) if they are:
- Foreigners
- Smoker

Others we should remain now, subsidised meds. Rm20 charge instead of rm1 is ok.

no medicine，blame doctor < BN take away medicine  allocation from poor
barang naik，blame businessman < its gst
petrol naik，blame petrol station owner < BN take away subsidy

lol.......

monopoly of drugs
monopoly of non-medical services(radi****)
paying salary for.deadwood staff
if can settle this can save a lot oredi

i seen my gov servant doctor brother, sister and her dr husband living a good life...



their salary must be big and stable

Kinda agree with this. Please add land whale, obese ppl and gay men too.

put person with unhealthy lifestyle lah

apa pasah gay men
lesbian tak da?

they use kondom and do regularly check up dey

what's funny is they promise new hospital every pru but still didnt build it. i guess even if they've build it, there'll be no staff

Use threat for being poor at financial managing? Step out of the kitchen if you can't cook

Either they could only give relief to poor family, like below a certain income etc.

If claim smoking or unhealthy lifestyle, would they have the will to ban smoking etc? They can't give up the tax from those industry. Even medical ppl and health ministry ppl pun smoke apa semua.

erm, you do realise our government hospitals are abused to death by the rakyat right

and if anything the way the opposition is calling for debt reduction and what not, its likley that the prices of these things will go up

Govt hospitals give medicine stamps to these people and then use the stamps in pharmacy.

i think is logical and smart...
no doctor, you die, dont need give medicine and treatment, save cost...

we need that budget for other areas