The Health Ministry will be issuing a statement clarifying allegations that the National Heart Institute was discharging all civil servants and pensioners as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Health director-general Dr Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan in a brief response to the New Straits Times, said either the ministry or minister Dzulkefly Ahmad would respond soon.
Earlier today health news portal CodeBlue published a letter from an unnamed pensioner who claimed to have been discharged from IJN after receiving extensive care.
The writer alleged that he was told by doctors at the heart institute that they were following a Health Ministry directive for civil servants and pensioners to be discharged to government cardiac centres.
IJN had, in a statement last year, highlighted that a government circular from 2002 required patients at the institute who were pensioners or civil servants to be referred back to a government hospital 12 months after undergoing a procedure or surgery.
The institute is fully owned by the government through the Finance Ministry but operates as a private health facility. - Mkini
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