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SUARA FPMPAM NOVEMBER 2018 ISSUE Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations, Malaysia Editor-in-Chief : Dr Yek Sing Chee Speech by Dr Steven Chow President of FPMPAM at Doctors’ Day Dinner on 13th October 2018 On behalf of the Council and members of the Federation, it is my greatest pleasure to congratulate the Organising Committee of Doctors’ Day 2018 for a most exciting and successful event. When the challenge was first thrown to Dr Mohd Tajudin, President PMPS Kedah/Perlis, he had no hesitancy in accepting it. Today, he and his Kedah team have proven that in Kedah, Dr Steven Chow you can ask for and expect the best like in everything President FPMPAM else. The theme ‘Kesihatan Untuk Rakyat’ is apt and precise and speaks well for the medical leadership of Kedah and Perlis. the future of the nation is in the hands of not one but two doctors. Nothing is more comfortable than having Over the years, the Federation has had great support your doctor’s finger on your pulse when you are sick, from the Kedah/Perlis team in the work of the Federation unwell and not sure what’s wrong with yourself. in our journey from Padang Besar, up north all the way across the sea to Sabah and Sarawak. We have just celebrated our 55th Malaysia Day. Teachers have Teachers’ Day, Nurses have Nurses’ Day, our police Syabas to Team Kedah/Perlis. Syabas Dr Tajudin, Dr have Police Day and so on and so forth. There is really no Annuar, Dr Umasundari, Dr Siti Faridah, Dr Tan Poh Teng compelling reason why after all these decades serving and the rest of the team. the rakyat we do not have a Doctor’s Day in Malaysia. This 5th Federation Doctors’ Day in Malaysia is special Since 2014, the Federation has been celebrating our for two important reasons. Doctors’ Day on 10.10 to signify our commitment to provide the best of our services to our patients. Firstly, it coincides with the year of historical change in socio-political maturation of our nation. We as doctors In India, the National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on 1st working on the ground and could feel this change July all across India to honour the legendary physician coming. and the second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy. Secondly, closer to our hearts, at this pivotal moment, Issue 1 2018 - Suara FPMPAM 1 We now have a doctor as the Prime Minister of Malaysia Our GP care is one of the most cost-effective system of a second time around and Deputy Prime Minister who is medical care for the acute and walking-sick patients. Our also a doctor and that is more than enough reason for GPs are ready to accept outsourcing of the governments the Government to declare a national Doctor’s Day for outpatient care to the private sector as this is the all doctors, both in the private and the public sectors, in best way forward to relieve the perennial problem of keeping with our aim to "unite doctors for better patient congestion in the government hospitals. It will then care". allow the government hospitals to focus on preventive care, secondary and tertiary care. The day, 10:10, will always be special to us as we individually and collectively strive to achieve perfection We hope our YB Deputy Minister of Health and many YBs in what we must do as doctors. The Federation has given and VIPs with us tonight will appreciate the importance the pledge that we will continue to offer our services to of nurturing and strengthening our unique healthcare the best of our ability and capacity to communities that system and stop the insidious commercialisation of have fallen through the social safety net, no matter how healthcare which is milking the money that the rakyat remote they may be. have put aside for their care when they are sick. Once again, a big thank you, to the Exco and Members of In this respect we look forward to working with other the Kedah/Perlis PMPS and the Organising Committee governmental and non-governmental agencies as we for hosting Doctors’ Day 2018. The enthusiasm and focus our medical outreach programmes to help the positive vibes that you have generated will be felt by indigenous people in our jungles to ensure that no one all our doctors and patients, not only here in Kedah but is left behind as we strive to be a developed nation by throughout Malaysia. 2015. Thank you and have a wonderful evening and a year We hope our new government will see it fit to nurture ahead. and facilitate our existing private GP system providing for accessible, affordable and personalised medical care for 40% of the outpatient population in the urban and semi-urban areas. FPMPAM OFFICE BEARERS 2018-2019 PRESIDENT Dr Steven Chow Kim Weng DEPUTY PRESIDENT Dato’ Dr Lim Boon Sho HON SECRETARY Dr Shanmuganathan Ganeson HON TREASURER Dato’ Dr Satish Shukla HON DEPUTY SECRETARY Dr Gong Swee Kim STATE REPRESENTATIVES a. Kedah & Perlis Dr Mohd Tajudin Hj Shaffee b. Kuala Lumpur & Selangor Dr Pearl Leong c. Pahang Dr Hew Kin Sun d. Penang Dr Ajay Sharma e. Perak Dr Yee Meng Kheong f. Sabah Dr James Jeremiah g. Sarawak Dr Liew Shan Fap CARE PROGRAMME REPRESENTATIVE Dr Chang Keng Wee EDITOR, SUARA FPMPAM Dr Yek Sing Chee HON AUDITORS Dr Pritam Singh Dr Kong Chiew Meng 2 Issue 1 2018 - Suara FPMPAM EDITORIAL Call on Government to Preserve and Consolidate independent private GP is clearly over. Large GP chain Independent Solo Practitioners as the Back Bone of practices owned by businessmen and corporations will Primary Care Provision dominate the field. A doctor wishing to practise good medicine will be merely a workhorse. We are now seeing The medical expenditure in our country in the past the unstoppable commercialization of medicine." decade or so has been escalating probably as a result of the commercialization of the health care facilities His fear at that time was not unfounded, with the then by corporations and businessmen who are dominating government establishing numerous 1 Malaysia clinics this field. They have made considerable gain in in locations that were already well served by the GPs, commercialization and cherry-picking important exerting extra strain on the already struggling solo components of our healthcare delivery utilizing their GPs. These 1M Clinics were not exactly helping the local massive financial resources to lobby for business- community as they only offer limited services and friendly policies. further stretching the resources of the public healthcare services which should have been logically directed to It must be noted that since our independence in the poorly served remote rural communities. 1957 to the early 1980’s, within a span of less than 30 years, the Government had developed one of the most The millions of ringgit spent so far on 1 M Clinics could comprehensive healthcare services which had been have been more cost effective had it been used for regularly praised as one of the best in the world. outsourcing primary care to the well-established and well distributed GP clinics nationwide. Many of the 1M It is on record in WHO’s Malaysian Health Care System clinics have now been found to be under-performing review, "Health system in transition Vol 3, No 1 2013", and serving no better dispensaries manned by HAs that Malaysia has made great gain in life expectancy and nurses. This was in total contradiction to the MOHs for its people, an increase between 1970 and 2008 for policy of upgrading the rural health clinics to be manned women from 65.5 to 76.4 years and for men from 61.6 to by registered medical practitioners. 71.6 years. We are confident that our private GP network would have The Government would not have done so well without the done a better job and at a lower cost. Solo practitioners contribution and support from all our well distributed with their hands-on, patient-friendly and personalized and supportive general practitioners. Their sacrifices service have very close rapport with the community and and efforts should be acknowledged and, in return, the can provide full-fledged medical care services at a lower Government should provide supporting incentive in the cost. form of regulatory support and tax incentive including funding similar to that for the SME. It should be The current scenario of too many laws and regulations appreciated that our GPs have been working tirelessly watching over the practice of medicine whilst the and diligently in helping the nation to achieve the health business of medicine remains largely unregulated is status that we are enjoying today. the perfect recipe for disaster. FPMPAM President, Dr Steven Chow, highlighted this With the new government, solo practitioners are looking development in a speech made at the Perak Medical forward to a meaningful and inclusive private-public Practitioners’ Society Event on 8th September 2013 partnership in medical care for our community. in Ipoh where he said ".. the prime role of the solo Issue 1 2018 - Suara FPMPAM 3 Speech by YB Dr Lee Boon Chye Deputy Minister of Health Malaysia at Doctors’ Day Dinner on 13th October 2018 It is my pleasure to congratulate the Federation of in the socioeconomic ladder. Malaysia has one of the Private Medical Practitioners’ Associations, Malaysia, highest inequality rates in Southeast Asia, compared the Kedah/Perlis Private Medical Practitioners’ Society to many Latin American countries. Creeping inequality and the Organising Committee for a very successful within ethnic groups and regions in Malaysia poses two-day activity in conjunction with your Doctors’ Day perhaps the most serious threat to social cohesion and 2018.