KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Ministry of Health is currently sorting out a financing mechanism to send more Covid-19 patients to private hospitals., Dr Noor Hisham said he expects an announcement to be made soon by the ministry to offload and reduce the burden in public hospitals, especially seriously ill Covid-19 patients who need to be warded in intensive care units .
Dr Noor Hisham added that based on MoH’s discussion with the Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia last year, some private hospitals have offered their services at discounted prices and in fact some doctors are willing to waive their professional fees to help the public sector to cope with the pandemic.
He said more than 2,000 surgical and medical-based procedures have been outsourced to private hospitals last year.
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