Health news in Kampung Likas

1. Ambulance door held shut with foot, dilapidated quarters: health workers speak out after Long Lellang

   12 hours ago CodeBlue Tuaran, Sabah 24.5 km

   Health workers in Sabah and elsewhere have posted accounts of rundown ambulances, including a nurse holding a door shut with her foot and a doctor describing a repurposed pick-up used to move patients in Tuaran. A medical officer in Kudat said staff there have only vans, strapping oxygen tanks with seatbelts and laying patients across the backseat. The posts follow the Long Lellang flying doctor tragedy and question whether health staff are given safe assets.

2. Healthy ageing a lifelong process, not an old-age concern, says MHAS chairman

   2 days ago Daily Express Sabah Sabah International Convention Centre (SICC) 2.8 km

   At the 11th Malaysian Conference on Healthy Ageing at the Sabah International Convention Centre in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Healthy Ageing Society organising chairman Dr Wong Teck Wee said healthy ageing must be treated as a lifelong process rather than something that begins in old age. He stressed prevention, lifestyle choices and community participation, citing the HEPOP pilot programme with about 80 participants.

3. Sarawak seeks special recruitment to fill 5,654 health department vacancies

   3 days ago Sarawak Tribune Sabah International Convention Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 2.8 km

   Sarawak is pushing for a special recruitment exercise to fill 5,654 vacant posts in its Health Department, about 18 per cent of the workforce. Deputy Premier Dr Sim Kui Hian raised the proposal at the MA63 Implementation Action Council meeting in Kota Kinabalu, along with calls for health autonomy, clinic upgrades and 11,000 new posts.

4. Healthy ageing conference opens in Kota Kinabalu, calls for rethink of homes and communities

   4 days ago CodeBlue Sabah International Convention Centre, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 2.8 km

   The 11th Malaysian Conference on Healthy Ageing opened today at the Sabah International Convention Centre in Kota Kinabalu. Organising chairman Dr Wong Teck Wee said Malaysia must look beyond medical care and redesign homes, neighbourhoods, transport and public spaces so older people can stay independent. The two-day conference, themed 'Revolutionising Healthy Ageing', brings together health professionals, researchers and policymakers from Malaysia and abroad.