PUTRAJAYA, Sept 24 — The Health Ministry is studying various methods to resolve the backlog issue at ministry facilities, including expanding outsourcing of medical services.
He said the ministry had begun outsourcing medical services to private hospitals since 2020 to overcome the backlog issue. He provided details on the backlog of non-Covid-19 cases in ministry facilities, stating that data since September 1 showed there were 57,355 backlog cases for surgical-based and medical-based procedures.
“From that total, 97.4 per cent or 52,373 are non-cancer surgeries while 2.6 per cent or 1,412 involve cancer cases,” he added.
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