Health Ministry offers private nursing graduates employment

The Health Ministry will interview 1,681 private nursing diploma holders, between November 10 and 12, at 85 centres nationwide, for recruitment into the Ministry mid-December this year, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

"The Government has decided to overcome the unemployment faced by graduates from private institutions of higher learning by taking in more nurses into the Ministry, to simultaneously resolve the shortage in government clinics and hospitals," he said Tuesday.

The Ministry will also be implementing the 1Malaysia Training Scheme (SL1M) with the Economic Planning Unit for nursing graduates who are still unemployed, he said.

He added that the Nursing Graduates SL1M programme was part of the Government's effort to provide graduates with skills and clinical experience to enhance their employability and would involve the private sector via their corporate social responsibility (CSR).

"The selected graduates for the programme will be placed at private clinics and hospitals for at least a year to enhance their skills and provide them with clinical experience," said Liow.

Upon completion, they could either be absorbed by the same clinics and hospitals or seek employment elsewhere, he explained.

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Health: Women who keep food diary more likely to lose weight

Dieters take note: Women who keep a food journal, don't skip meals and don't eat out lunch at restaurants very often lose more weight than dieters who don't follow these practices, a new study shows.

 Keep a food jounal

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Health: 'Flab jab' could let you stay slim on a junk food diet by using immune system to fight weight gain

A ‘flab jab’ that allows people to gorge on junk food yet keep trim could be on the horizon.

Scientists have invented an obesity vaccine that uses the immune system to fight weight gain. In tests, mice given a single injection lost 10%of body weight after four days.

  ‘flab jab’ might allow people to eat badly yet stay slim

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Parent: Gift of comfort – and organs

Jessie Cheah and Karl Ngun may not have the millions to give away to children who need liver transplants but they try to help in whatever way they can. The couple, whose seven-year-old daughter Jodi went through a similar transplant procedure at the Selayang Hospital, said they helped families whose children were in the same predicament by sharing their experiences.

 

 Happy family: Jodi smiling for the camera as Cheah and Ngun look on after the cheque presentation ceremony by Maybank Foundation to the Selayang Hospital’s Liver Transplant Trust Fund.

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Sabah: Facing shortage of assistant medical officers, needs 1,000 more

Sabah is facing a shortage of assistant medical officers (AMOs). According to the president of the Association of Medical Assistants Sabah (AMAS), Joseph Kajangan, the state presently has 1,160 AMOs serving at public hospitals and clinics.

Sabah facing shortage of assistant medical officers

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Musa Aman: Counsellors empowered to improve mental health in human capital development

Ensuring a quality counselling service is important towards producing a healthy and competent human capital, said Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman. He said the counselling profession plays a very significant role in helping the community to overcome various challenges and to nurture personal growth professionally.

Nurture personal growth professionally

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Health: Breast cancer support group to go rural

Due to distance and financial constraints, breast cancer victims from the rural areas would normally opt for traditional therapies instead of seeking professional medical treatment. In its effort to lend assistance to women and breast cancer patients in the rural areas, Kinabalu Pink Ribbon, a breast cancer support organisation in Sabah, will hold a fund-raising ‘Pink Charity Night’ for the cause.

Breast cancer support

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Health: Diabetes, hypertension on rise among teens

Staying fit and healthy, it appears, is increasingly more difficult for students in Malaysia today.

Sabah Health Department Director Dr Mohd Yusof Ibrahim said the chances of young Malaysians being obese are much, much higher compared to just a few years ago. He added that other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and hypertension were also on the rise among teenagers due to unhealthy eating habits and a passive lifestyle.

 Diabetes, hypertension on rise among teens

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NGO: Govt welcomes contributions to set up more haemodialysis centres in Sabah

Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said the government welcomes contributions from non-governmental organisations to set up more haemodialysis centres in Sabah.

 Haemodialysis

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Serangan penyakit tangan, kaki dan mulut di tahap terkawal di Sabah

Situasi penyakit tangan, kaki dan mulut di Sabah dilaporkan berada di tahap terkawal, kata Timbalan Pengarah Kesihatan Negeri Sabah, Dr Jamail Muhi.

 

“Kesemua kes-kes yang dilaporkan adalah tidak serius dan setakat ini tiada lagi sebarang kes kematian direkodkan” 

jelas Jamail Muhi ketika ditanya oleh pihak media di Majlis Makan Malam Timbalan Menteri Kesihatan Malaysia dan Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Malaysia Bersama Pengamal Media di Hotel Promenade di sini, pada Sabtu.

Penyakit tangan, kaki dan mulut di Sabah

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Abandoned Nabawan mini hospital to recommence construction in June

Construction of Nabawan district health type four clinic which was abandoned last year will recommence in June and upgraded into a mini hospital costing approximately RM40m.

Nabawan Mini Hospital to Recommence Construction in June

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