The Bintulu Hospital CT Scan (English & Chinese Text)

Media Statement by Chiew Chin Sing, Chairman DAP Bintulu Branch , DAP Sarawak Deputy Chairman and Sarawak State Assemblyman for Kidurong on 13th July, 2011

State Assemblyman for Kidurong Chiew Chin Sing said that it is most regrettable that the CT Scan at the Bintulu Divisonal Hospital is still non functional though it had been out of order for about six month already.

I really cannot believe why is it taking such a long time just to fix a problem like this. And what is the authority concerned up to anyway. The way this problem is handled is really of no help to any body but only bring more inconveniences and pain to the people.

So often life and death of a patient depends on the availability and correct information to the doctors and that is why no hospital should be without proper medical equipments , like for example a CT Scan in this case.

Yesterday I was at the hospital visiting a friend who was injured in a road accident. I understood that much time been spent by so many just to get him to the Emergency Ward of the hospital. And as he was in a coma and would need scanning to the head but was told that the CT Scan was not working. That was really shocking, hurting and totally unacceptable.

Although lately two new private medical centers had opened up in Bintulu, and the patients can take their scanning there but that is no reason for not giving priority to fixing the scanner at the hospital.

The authority concerned must remember that many of the patients who had come to the hospital for treatment are poor people who had spend money on transport, food, lodging etc etc already just to get to the hospital. They do not have the extra three to five hundred more ringgit to do scanning out side. Many had come from nearby and the rural areas. Being sick is already painful and there is no need to add on more trouble and burden to them anymore.

The government must empathize with the people, help them, be more caring and give them the best service there is and get the Bintulu Division hospital to be a well equipped hospital complete with the equipments and the personnel, doctors, specialists, nurses and others.

Bintulu had undergone more than 30 years of development but is still short of a fully equipped and fully staffed hospital. And whether the government is waiting for the so called second wave of development to finish before we can have a truly full, complete and well equipped, well staffed hospital.

Chiew Chin Sing.



砂罗越民主行动党署理主席，民主行动党民都鲁支部主席兼吉都隆区州议员周政新13.7.2011文告如下:


吉都隆区州议员周政新对民都鲁政府医院扫描机(CT Scan)坏了半年还未处理好表示遗憾。

我简直不感相信要解决一架扫描机的问题也要花上这么久的时间。有关方面到底是怎样搞的，这样做事情只是给人民带来许多的不便与心痛，一点帮助都没有。

许多时候生命延续就取决於医生们能够得到确实的讯息，所以一些医院的医疗仪器是决对不能没有的，就如一架扫描机。

昨天我到医院去看一名交通意外的朋友，各造都花了许多时间把他送到民省大医院的急诊室。他昏迷了，需要扫描脑部，然而仅被告知，扫描机坏了。真是叫人感到失落，伤心与难以接受。

虽然说最近民都鲁省加了两间私人医院，病人也可到他们那边去做扫描，不过那也不能作为没有把事件做为优先处理的理由。

有关当局千万别忘了许许多多到医院看病的人，很多都是那么的贫穷。一动身去看病，车费，膳食等都要花费许多，那里还有三，五百槐的钱再到外面去做扫描或是其他的。他们许多都是从郊区及乡下来的。生病本来就是痛苦的了，没有必再给他人增加困扰与负担。

政府应该也体恤一下人民的感受，帮助这些人，关心他们，好好的为人民提供最佳的服务。提供一间完整的省医院，不要等下有这个，又没那个。

民都鲁省都已发展了三十多年，然而一间完整的医院也没有辩法做好。感到讽刺的是，政府是否要等到所谓的第二波发展后才能完成。


周政新。