Health services quality in Malaysia constantly improving: Sharifah Zarah

KOTA BHARU: The government has always been striving to ensure that the quality of health services in the country improving from time to time for the well-being of the people, said Communications and Multimedia Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Zarah Syed Ahmad.
She said this included the treatment of cancer which had become much more efficient these days.
"According to doctors' feedback, the current cancer treatment is more inclined to 'micro-targeting' and the cells are not completely destroyed. The patients also said that the latest treatment was now more comfortable.
"This shows that Malaysia has been using state-of-the-art technology for patients to receive the best treatment," she told reporters in conjunction with the Ziarah Kaseh Persatuan Orang Kota Bharu's (POKB) programme for cancer patients at the Raja Perempuan Zainab Hospital II here today.
Also present were POKB council member Prof Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Latiff and POKB's Yayasan Kaseh Kanser dan Kronik chief executive officer Mohamed Afandi Hassan.
During the visit, Sharifah Zarah, who is also a POKB Lifetime Honorary Member, presented assistance to 37 cancer patients at the hospital and spent time with them.
She said the government had spent billions of ringgit to ensure that the medical technology in the country was being utilised at an optimum level so that the people would get the best treatment.
In the meantime, Sharifah Zarah said all agencies under the ministry had always played their roles in disseminating information through various healthcare programmes for the people. — Bernama