Health minister: Mission is to transform healthcare within 15th Parliament timeframe

Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad aims to modernise the national healthcare system and improve service delivery within the 15th parliamentary term.

The Ministry of Health faces challenges in maintaining facilities and meeting healthcare delivery needs, focusing on streamlining systems and enhancing patient experience.

Efforts include digitalisation, like electronic medical records, and initiatives like the Medicine-by-Post to make healthcare more accessible, reducing dependency on hospitals.

PUTRAJAYA, Sept 29 — Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad wants the national healthcare transformation agenda, including modernising the system and improving patient service delivery, to be completed within the 15th parliamentary term.

He said the Ministry of Health (MOH) faces a major challenge of not only keeping facilities ready but also ensuring healthcare delivery consistently meets the people’s needs.

The focus, he said, includes streamlining existing systems and improving healthcare delivery, with patient experience and journey among the key considerations in executing the ministry’s initiatives.

“Faced with various challenges in healthcare services and the service system, I am certainly among the ministers dealing with a plethora of problems. Our ministry is, by nature, first, facility-based, and second, service-based.

“As such, the challenge for me, my ministry, MOH secretary-general Datuk Seri Hasnol Zam Zam Ahmad, and Health director-general, Datuk Dr Mahathar Abd Wahab, is to ensure that in this 15th Parliament, I fulfil my ambition of building a modern healthcare system and delivery.

“Whatever the method, platform or initiative, I will deliver it as soon as possible,” he said at the launch of the Financing for the Medicine-by-Post Initiative (UMP) today.

Also present were Communications Minister Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil, his deputy Teo Nie Ching, and Ministry of Communications secretary-general, Datuk Abdul Halim Hamzah.

Dzulkefly said MOH faces increasingly complex challenges, including food safety and quality, mental health and planetary health.

To strengthen healthcare transformation, he said, the Ministry is also focusing on digitalisation and interoperability across health systems and facilities, including electronic medical records that let public and private facilities share data.

Dzulkefly added that MOH wants healthcare delivery closer to the community and less dependent on hospitals or health facilities for matters that can be handled through alternatives.

He cited UMP as an example that allows patients to obtain follow-up medication without visiting a health facility solely to collect medicine.

“This is the patient experience. We want better treatment and, ultimately, less congestion at hospitals,” he said.

Dzulkefly said efforts to improve follow-up medicine delivery are nothing new, with pharmacy initiatives rolled out in phases over the past decade.

These include Drive-Through Pharmacy, Locker4U and the Local Follow-Up Medicine Supply Centre, as well as UMP and the MyUbat app, to ease the management of follow-up supplies and save patients time and money.

“Healthcare services must not only be available but easily accessible to all Malaysians. That is why we want to deliver on this. That is the mission of the year,” he said. — Bernama

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卫生部长祖基菲里·艾哈迈德的目标是在第15届议会任期内实现国家医疗保健系统的现代化，并改善服务提供。

卫生部在维护设施和满足医疗服务需求方面面临挑战，重点是简化系统和提高患者体验。

相关努力包括数字化（如电子病历）和“邮寄药品”等举措，以使医疗保健更加便捷，减少对医院的依赖。

布城，9月29日讯——卫生部长拿督斯里祖基菲里·阿末希望国家医疗保健改革议程，包括系统现代化和改善患者服务，能在第15届国会任期内完成。

他表示，卫生部面临的重大挑战不仅在于保持医疗设施随时可用，还在于确保医疗服务始终满足人民的需求。

他表示，重点包括简化现有系统和改善医疗保健服务，患者体验和就医过程是执行卫生部各项举措的关键考虑因素。

“面对医疗服务和医疗服务体系中的各种挑战，我当然也是众多需要处理各种问题的部长之一。我们部门的性质决定了它首先是以医疗设施为基础，其次是以服务为基础。”

“因此，我、我的部门、卫生部秘书长拿督斯里哈斯诺·扎姆扎姆·艾哈迈德以及卫生总监拿督马哈塔·阿卜杜勒·瓦哈卜面临的挑战是，确保在第15届国会中，我能够实现建立现代化医疗保健系统和服务的愿景。

“无论采用何种方法、平台或举措，我都会尽快落实，”他在今天举行的“药品邮寄融资计划”（UMP）启动仪式上说道。

出席者包括通讯部长拿督斯里法米法吉、副手张念群和通讯部秘书长拿督阿都哈林哈姆扎。

祖基菲里表示，卫生部面临着日益复杂的挑战，包括食品安全和质量、心理健康和地球健康。

他表示，为了加强医疗转型，卫生部还致力于医疗系统和设施的数字化和互操作性，包括电子病历，使公立和私立机构能够共享数据。

祖基菲里补充说，卫生部希望医疗保健服务更贴近社区，减少对医院或医疗机构的依赖，尤其是在可以通过其他方式处理的问题上。

他以 UMP 为例，说明患者无需专门前往医疗机构取药即可获得后续药物。

“这是患者体验的问题。我们希望得到更好的治疗，并最终缓解医院的拥挤状况，”他说。

祖基菲里表示，改善后续药物配送的努力并非新鲜事，药房的相关举措在过去十年中分阶段推出。

这些服务包括免下车药房、Locker4U 和当地后续药物供应中心，以及 UMP 和 MyUbat 应用程序，旨在简化后续用品的管理，并为患者节省时间和金钱。

“医疗服务不仅要普及，而且要让所有马来西亚人都能便捷地获得。这就是我们努力实现这一目标的原因。这是我们今年的使命。”他说道。——马新社

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