Just what is it did the doctor order?

The Malaysian Government is spending a lot of money for campaigning healthy lifestyle so that people live life so healthy that they visit the hospitals and clinics less frequently.

At the same time, the Government is also spending a lot of money to improve the facilities in hospitals and enhance their services. More and bigger hospitals are either being built or in the pipeline to cater for the number of patients that is expected to grow.

Aye, what gives? We encourage people to take public transportation and car-pool and yet build highway tunnels so that more cars can go into the cities?

Well ok, so the bigger and better hospitals are for accident cases, not for treating disease-inflicted patients, the number of which should decrease once the healthy lifestyle campaign is successful. You don’t say. The last time I heard, the world’s biggest death causes are not accidents, but diabetes and stroke!

There’s more. I just found out that a study reveals that 90,000 people die in hospitals in the US every year due to medical error (wrong prescription, poor surgical performance, system malfunction etc). Ninety thousand! That’s like having an airbus of 500 passengers crashing 15 times a month for a year! If the US, known to have the world’s best hospitals with the world’s best medical service system can make mistakes, do you have any idea how much medical negligence we are actually covering up for our local hospitals?