LABIS: Good healthcare services is now more accessible to the local folk with the opening of a RM20mil health clinic here recently.
The range of facilities include 24-hour emergency service, X-Ray, pharmacy and family health care.
Labis MP Datuk Chua Tee Yong said the clinic, which opened its doors on Nov 11 and manned by a team of doctors and nurses, was mooted a few years ago when MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek was Health Minister then.
“It is good news to the people here. Apart from the frontline health care services which open from Monday to Friday, the 24-hour- emergency services is also very important to the people,” he told reporters after launching the “Jom Sihat” programme on Saturday.
The event, attended by locals, health officers and community leaders, was held to celebrate the clinic’s opening.
Chua said the Government emphasised a lot on health care as reflected in its 2012 budget whereby RM12bil was set aside to provide afforable health care for the people.
He also reminded the people the importance of practising a healthy lifestyle, pointing out that the Health Ministry’s statistics had shown that lifestyle-related chronic diseases like heart ailments, hypertension, diabetes and cancer were on the rise in the country.
“The trend is due to an unhealthy lifestyle whereby we eat more than we can and exercise less,” he added.
Earlier, Chua also presented financial aid to 13 new kidney patients at Pertubuhan Heamodialysis Muhibbah Segamat Johor.
Each patient received RM500, he said, adding that Labis MCA had helped some 50 patients at the centre since 2008.
Chua also announced RM3,000 for the clinic and RM5,000 for the dialysis centre for them to conduct activities with the community.
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