JOHOR BARU: Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) and Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI) will be getting additional medical officers soon, says Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi.
The Johor Mentri Besar added that the new medical officers would help ease the burden of current staff and increase service efficiency at the two public hospitals.
"Some 243 additional medical staff will be arriving at Johor's two main public hospitals here. About 33 of them are expected to arrive at HSI this week.
"In July, HSI will also be getting 60 more medical staff while 150 new medical staff will be sent to HSA," he added.
Onn Hafiz, who is also Machap assemblyman, said this when met after conducting a visit to the reopening of two wards at HSI here on Friday (June 16).
He added that with the addition of this workforce at both hospitals, it will ease the burden on existing staff and increase efficiency in the wards involved.
Onn Hafiz also expressed appreciation to the leadership at the federal level, especially to Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa and also the Public Service Department (JPA) who had approved the addition of health workers in the state.
On Monday (June 12), Dr Zaliha said Johor would receive a special allocation of more than RM1.4mil and 35 medical staff members from the Health Ministry to support the shortages faced by the state’s two main hospitals.
“The ministry is in the process of coming up with an immediate solution where Johor will receive 35 permanent nurses and other staff members including assistant medical officers and related contract personnel, which are pending approval,” she said in a statement on Monday (June 12).
Dr Zaliha added that the ministry has approved RM771,600 in special allocations for the purchase of medical and non-medical assets such as hospital beds, defibrillators, vital signs equipment, an electrocardiogram machine and portable X-ray viewer.
Apart from that, operational expenses of RM634,916 was allocated to the state Health Department for non-medical assets to address the urgent needs at HSA and HSI, she added.
