| BINTULU: The government is planning
to set up a burns unit at the Bintulu Hospital under the Ninth Malaysia
Plan (9MP).
The unit expected ot cost RM 5 million.
Deputy Minister of Health Datuk Dr. Abdul
Latiff Ahmad siad the ministry made the decision in view of the risks in
the division's petro-chemical and gas industrial areas.
"We already have burns units in all state
hospitals and under the 9MP we will be developing such units at district
level hospitals and high-risk areas like in Port Dickson, Kemaman and Miri,"
he said.
He was replying to questions by Bintulu
Member of Parliament Dato' Seri Tiong King Sing in the current sitting
of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur.
Tiong told the house that he learnt of
studies being made in the past towards creating a burns unit at the hospital
here but the developement had never materialised.
Dr. Abdul Latiff also explained that the
cost he mentioned was only for the development of the unit but not inclusive
of the cost of training human resource. |
