SIBU, March 26 — The Sibu Hospital Action Committee is urging the federal government to give due attention to the hospital over its poor state of medical equipment and lack of manpower.
The Deputy Minister for Education, Innovation and Talent Development I, was yesterday responding to Senator Robert Lau’s revelation in parliament recently that 76 per cent of medical equipment in Sarawak healthcare system was beyond economic repair . “So, I will be going into specific on each and every BER equipment in Sibu Hospital, in addition to new equipment acquisition to better serve the people.
“If it were not for Covid-19 pandemic, we might not have been able to know the poor state of medical equipment and lack of staff at Sibu Hospital.