PUTRAJAYA: Extended operations hours for health clinics (klinik kesihatan) is among the solutions that the Health Ministry is mulling to prevent crowding at Emergency Departments at hospitals, once there are sufficient resources.
Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa said while citing the Auditor-General’s 2019 report that the wait time at emergency departments usually took longer than six hours.
However, she said there must be proper and thorough planning, to ensure that there was not a serious constraint on resources. "This measure will reduce the issue related to extremely long working hours for healthcare staff and will in turn reduce or prevent burn-out," she said while also acknowledging that she had also served as a physician at an Emergency Department.
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