KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 — The Health Ministry announced the official formation today of the independent Healthcare Work Culture Improvement Task Force to look into matters such as the death of a trainee doctor in Penang Hospital, amid reports of bullying incidents and mental stress faced by healthcare personnel.
“I wish to stress that the Health Ministry of Malaysia is very committed in its efforts to improve the working environment for health services personnel in general and to eliminate toxic work culture in the Health Ministry’s health facilities,” Khairy said in the statement announcing the formation and panel members of this new task force.
With over 270,000 personnel in the Health Ministry, Khairy noted their main responsibility of ensuring the safety of all patients that are treated and the delivery of high quality health services to Malaysians. It would also include analysing information and the findings of the investigation into the incident of the trainee doctor’s death at Penang Hospital.
The eight members are said to be professionals and experts in their own fields, including Datuk Hamidah Naziadin who has 31 years of experience in the human resources field and who had in the past been chief human resources officer for CIMB Group and also former CEO of Yayasan CIMB handling the bank’s corporate social responsibility agenda.
The other members include lawyer Mohamed Ridza Mohamed Abdulla and associate professor Dr Amer Siddiq Amer Nordin who is a consultant psychiatrist and smoking cessation specialist at the Department of Psychological Medicine of University of Malaya’s Faculty of Medicine.
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