Heartless idea – Privatizing IJN issue on Malaysiakini

I was away in Langkawi and was surfing Malaysiakini through my mobile phone when I came across the news that the Government is planning to privatize the Institut Jantung Negara. As it is impossible to spew my rant using my mobile phone, I decided to wait till I return home. Though I can blog from mobile phone, it is rather tiring to type on the tiny QWERTY keypad.

When I got home, I read that the DPM has made a statement that the idea is shelved (malaysiakini). But shelving does not mean they will not do it in future. It is very sad that our leaders are all blinded by profits and they only see money. They are heartless.

I bet these people have never sit at the corridors of public hospitals and see the agonies of those family members. Some of them who came from out Kuala Lumpur usually slept on the corridors because they came to take care of their ill loved ones. I had been there at the PICU in UMMC where critically ill children were warded and I had seen so many parents from small towns in Pahang, Negri Sembilan and other states because their children need the special care available only in these bigger hospitals.

Long time ago, my ex-boss driver had a son with heart ailment and my colleague kept me updated on his son’s operation at IJN. He was lucky that he got a huge sum of money (from kind soul) to enable his son to have the operation without delay. He told me how other children have to wait a long time to get their operation done and how these parents have to go through lots of worrying times before their child can be treated.

If our Government really privatize this hospital, those from the poorer family may as well just accept death as their final answer. None of them can afford IJN fees. The way I see it, it is like the Government has sentenced poor citizens to death due to their greed.

Before our PM-in-waiting even takes over the country leadership, he has shown such heartless side of himself. I shudder to think what befell us when he takes over.

Talking about heartless, I am surprised that even our Penang CM Lim Guan Eng used the same heartless word to describe this idea of privatizing IJN.

Meanwhile Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he disagreed with the privatisation idea.

“I quite agree that there are certain things that we cannot privatise because I think IJN has been giving a good service.

“The privatisation would turn IJN to become very heartless,” he said at a press conference held at Parliament lobby this morning.

Lim added that there was nothing wrong if the government considered generating revenue from the IJN or tried to run the institute like a private enterprise.

In conclusion, no one can become good leaders until they have suffered with the citizens, seen with their hearts (and not just eyes) the sufferings of these people and can overcome the lure of money.

And I wonder where is the Health Minister and what is his stand on this issue? He too failed us.

But then, what’s so surprising from these Barisan Nasional leaders who are only concern about their money and status?