MUKAH: Mukah Hospital needs to be upgraded to provide better services to the people here, said Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) Datuk Hanifah Hajar Taib.
She said the hospital lacked certain facilities which were important for better functioning of all units and sections.
Hanifah, who is also Mukah MP, hoped to obtain more details on the matter and would bring it to the attention of the relevant ministries.
“If a new hospital cannot be built, at least the existing one is upgraded,” she said after visiting Mukah Hospital today.
She hoped that with the upgraded facilities, there was no need for Mukah Hospital to refer patients to either Sibu or Bintulu anymore.
She added that Mukah Hospital also needed specialists and hoped to assist in the matter.
Earlier, Mukah Hospital director Dr Yik Kah Sieng, in a briefing, said among the plans for the future was to upgrade the hospital to a specialist hospital.
She said the 82-bed hospital also needed a new building and additional haemodialysis machines.
