SIBU: Sibu Hospital will buy back a soft tissue ultrasonic aspirator machine from a company. It has been renting the machine, which is used to perform brain surgery on cancer patients, from the company for the past one year.
The buy-back was possible with a combined donation of RM90,000 from Sibu MP Oscar Ling, Pelawan assemblymen David Wong and Bukit Assek assemblywoman Irene Chang.
Speaking to reporters at the presentation of a mock cheque ceremony yesterday, Wong said the owner of the machine wanted to take it back upon the expiry of the renting contract.
“The hospital authority approached us on the matter. So, the three of us decided to raise the money to buy the machine,” he added.
Wong said the original machine costs almost RM500,000 but the owner agreed to sell it for RM90,000.
The
machine at the hospital would benefit the 800,000 people in the central region,
he said.
Hospital
director Dr Ngian Hie Ung told that without the machine, patients in the region
would have to go to Kuching for the surgeries.
