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menunggu AHP Pie berkesempatan untuk menulis di blog ini, Ummie share satu artikel yang sangat tepat yang
ditulis oleh Dr. Iskandar Firzada bin Osman, his best doctor tentang isu keperluan perkhidmatan penjagaan
kesihatan di negara kita yang disiarkan di akhbar New Straits Times pada 20
Disember 2013. Ummie tak pandai nak translate.
Sila guna Google Translate jika perlu ya. TQ.
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| Klinik Kesihatan Jaya Gading, Kuantan, Pahang |
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
20
December 2013
BUILDING HOSPITALS: Strengthen primary healthcare services
By Dr Iskandar Firzada Osman, Kuantan, Pahang
I REFER to the letter
by Thomas Zacharia George, "Town needs a new, better one" (NST, Dec
18).
Building
or setting up more hospitals is not the only solution to the woe, since if
people have to be admitted, they are already sick. The focus of hospital
treatment is on secondary and tertiary prevention, meaning curative or control
and rehabilitative or palliative activities.
To
become a developed nation, we need healthy and productive people. Primary
healthcare, led by family medicine specialists, focuses on primary prevention
(that is, health promotion and disease prevention activities), yet provides
early secondary and tertiary preventive activities (similar to hospital-based
care in principle) to prevent permanent disability.
Primary
healthcare services incorporate the whole spectrum of "prevention" in
medical care. Primary, secondary and tertiary preventive activities should be
in the community itself and accessible to all, with focus on the person with
health-related issues, be it physical, mental and/or social (that is,
patient-centred), rather than disease-centred (hospital-based).
As
the patient's health advocator and health coordinator, the patient will be
empowered by the primary care physicians with appropriate health-seeking
behaviour to stay healthy and avoid being sick.
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The
hospital's secondary and tertiary care complement what has been done in primary
care. This strengthens the primary healthcare services in a more rational,
cost-beneficial and cost-effective approach towards achieving a healthy nation
for a developed nation.
By
strengthening the primary healthcare services, many people will stay healthy
and even if they are down with any disease, they will stay stable and healthy
throughout their life.
Hopefully,
this will entice more young doctors to take up family medicine as a specialty
in their career, despite the fact that hospital-based specialists are given
more perks in terms of promotions, compared with specialists in primary care
and public health.
Join
this noble profession for its noble cause, not for the perks.
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by: Ummie
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