Showing posts with label Sosial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sosial. Show all posts
DAP mahu ambil tindakan tegas ahli majlis MBSA
Berita Harian Online (21/1/09): DAP akan mengambil tindakan terhadap ahlinya yang juga Ahli Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam (MBSA), Ang Leng Kiat, yang meminta Kerajaan Selangor menghentikan operasi perjudian berlesen di negeri itu.
Setiausaha Agungnya, Lim Guan Eng, yang mengesahkan parti itu akan mengambil tindakan tegas ke atas Ang, menjelaskan kenyataan yang dibuat ahlinya itu bukan dasar DAP.
"Apa yang diperkatakan oleh Ang itu bukan polisi DAP, tapi pendapat peribadi. Jadi, ia tiada sebrang kaitan dengan kami," katanya yang enggan mengulas lanjut tindakan yang bakal dikenakan terhadap Ang.
Guan Eng yang juga Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang bercakap kepada pemberita selepas majlis pemasangan papan tanda dwi bahasa di Lebuh Campbell di sini, hari ini.
Awal minggu ini, Ang dilaporkan mengeluarkan kenyataan dengan mencadangkan MBSA menarik balik lesen judi yang dikeluarkan dan menghentikan pemberian lesen baru.
Ang menegaskan cadangan itu tidak mempunyai sebarang kaitan dengan politik atau keagamaan, tetapi untuk mengatasi masalah sosial yang mempunyai kaitan dengan perjudian.
Pengerusi DAP Selangor, Ean Yong Hian, yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Seri Kembangan, pula meminta Ang menarik balik cadangan itu.
Councillor in hot water over call to ban lotteries
The Edge Daily (21/1/09): A local council member from Selangor who had called for a ban on all forms of lottery in the state is in trouble with the DAP, which had nominated him for the seat.
The party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said yesterday stern action will be taken against Ang Leng Kiat, who sits on the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA). Ang had proposed that the MBSA stop issuing new permits for lottery outlets and withdraw licences which have already been issued.
He said his suggestion was to help minimise the social problems arising from gambling and that it was not politically or religiously motivated.
Lim did not disclose what action Ang would face, but said the councillor’s proposal did not reflect the party’s stance. The Selangor DAP also said that Ang’s statement did not represent the stance of the state liaison committee.
“This has nothing to do with the DAP. He is acting on his own,” said Lim, who is also Penang chief minister.
Nevertheless, Lim himself had last year called on the federal government to reduce the number of draws each week from the present 10 to six, saying that there were too many draws.
Lim was speaking to reporters after witnessing the installation of multilingual road signs in the heritage enclave here. Yesterday, 19 signboards were put up, out of a total of 300 that will be installed on 82 streets this year.
Meanwhile, despite the opposition from several non-governmental organisations (NGO) against the state’s Wireless@PENANG initiative, Lim said the state government will push ahead with the project.
“If WiFi is harmful, my chief of staff Jeff Ooi and I would be the two persons in Penang who will be the first to get fried by radiation, since we work 10 hours to 12 hours per day at Komtar, with four WiFi hotspots around us,” Lim said.
Setiausaha Agungnya, Lim Guan Eng, yang mengesahkan parti itu akan mengambil tindakan tegas ke atas Ang, menjelaskan kenyataan yang dibuat ahlinya itu bukan dasar DAP.
"Apa yang diperkatakan oleh Ang itu bukan polisi DAP, tapi pendapat peribadi. Jadi, ia tiada sebrang kaitan dengan kami," katanya yang enggan mengulas lanjut tindakan yang bakal dikenakan terhadap Ang.
Guan Eng yang juga Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang bercakap kepada pemberita selepas majlis pemasangan papan tanda dwi bahasa di Lebuh Campbell di sini, hari ini.
Awal minggu ini, Ang dilaporkan mengeluarkan kenyataan dengan mencadangkan MBSA menarik balik lesen judi yang dikeluarkan dan menghentikan pemberian lesen baru.
Ang menegaskan cadangan itu tidak mempunyai sebarang kaitan dengan politik atau keagamaan, tetapi untuk mengatasi masalah sosial yang mempunyai kaitan dengan perjudian.
Pengerusi DAP Selangor, Ean Yong Hian, yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Seri Kembangan, pula meminta Ang menarik balik cadangan itu.
Councillor in hot water over call to ban lotteries
The Edge Daily (21/1/09): A local council member from Selangor who had called for a ban on all forms of lottery in the state is in trouble with the DAP, which had nominated him for the seat.
The party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said yesterday stern action will be taken against Ang Leng Kiat, who sits on the Shah Alam City Council (MBSA). Ang had proposed that the MBSA stop issuing new permits for lottery outlets and withdraw licences which have already been issued.
He said his suggestion was to help minimise the social problems arising from gambling and that it was not politically or religiously motivated.
Lim did not disclose what action Ang would face, but said the councillor’s proposal did not reflect the party’s stance. The Selangor DAP also said that Ang’s statement did not represent the stance of the state liaison committee.
“This has nothing to do with the DAP. He is acting on his own,” said Lim, who is also Penang chief minister.
Nevertheless, Lim himself had last year called on the federal government to reduce the number of draws each week from the present 10 to six, saying that there were too many draws.
Lim was speaking to reporters after witnessing the installation of multilingual road signs in the heritage enclave here. Yesterday, 19 signboards were put up, out of a total of 300 that will be installed on 82 streets this year.
Meanwhile, despite the opposition from several non-governmental organisations (NGO) against the state’s Wireless@PENANG initiative, Lim said the state government will push ahead with the project.
“If WiFi is harmful, my chief of staff Jeff Ooi and I would be the two persons in Penang who will be the first to get fried by radiation, since we work 10 hours to 12 hours per day at Komtar, with four WiFi hotspots around us,” Lim said.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Mistake’ to privatise IJN
Exclusive interview with Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang
The Star (21/12/08): The National Heart Institute (IJN) should not be privatised as it provides training to develop cardiac units in all Government hospitals by 2020, says the country’s most renowned cardio-thoracic surgeon.
Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang said this was reason enough for the premier heart institution not to go private.
“Currently, there are four cardiac units in Penang, Johor Baru, Sarawak and Serdang hospitals. Even so, the units there are not as well-equipped and well-staffed as IJN.
“We still have a long way to go,” he added.
Dr Yahya, Malaysia’s first cardio-thoracic surgeon, wanted IJN to remain a corporatised body and controlled by the Government.
“It (IJN) was never meant to be a commercial institute. It was meant to be a centre of research, a premier academic institute,” he told The Star in an interview at his office in the Damansara Specialist Centre yesterday.
He added that, as a pioneer who was directly involved in the setting up of the hospital in 1990, he was “taken aback” by the idea of privatisation.
“I was told that even the doctors (at IJN) were not informed of the idea (to privatise),” he said.
On the Government’s deferment to conduct an in-depth study, Dr Yahya said professional opinions should be sought as they were the service providers.
“This is to ensure the academic aspects of it are not pushed aside. However, I am sure, even as you lay all the facts and figures on the table, the right decision will be not to privatise the hospital,” he said.
Dr Yahya said IJN had done well and even generated income.
“Therefore, I am rather suspicious of the privatisation idea. It is not as if the hospital is not doing well. Ideally, a health institution such as IJN should be physician-led,” he said.
In 1989, a team led by Dr Yahya performed a coronary bypass operation on then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. This subsequently initiated the setting-up of IJN in 1990 and the hospital was established two years later.
Decision on IJN is a political ploy, says Anwar
The Star (21/12/08): Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says the decision to defer privatisation of the National Heart Institute (IJN) is a political move, especially due to the upcoming Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election.
“The plan will likely resume after the by-election,” he told newsmen after launching Karnival Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim terbuka 2008 futsal competition, here, yesterday.
He was commenting on the Cabinet’s decision to conduct an in-depth study on Sime Darby Bhd’s proposal to take over IJN.
Anwar said any plan to privatise IJN would be of no benefit to the people.
“By privatising (IJN), the Government is actually abandoning one of its major social responsibilities to the rakyat,” he said, adding that IJN was built in 1992 using funds from the Finance Ministry with the objective of providing good and quality healthcare for the poor and middle class.
Anwar cited the privatised health system in the United States as an example where it had the best healthcare facilities in the world but the lower income group does not benefit.
The Star (21/12/08): The National Heart Institute (IJN) should not be privatised as it provides training to develop cardiac units in all Government hospitals by 2020, says the country’s most renowned cardio-thoracic surgeon.
Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang said this was reason enough for the premier heart institution not to go private.
“Currently, there are four cardiac units in Penang, Johor Baru, Sarawak and Serdang hospitals. Even so, the units there are not as well-equipped and well-staffed as IJN.
“We still have a long way to go,” he added.
Dr Yahya, Malaysia’s first cardio-thoracic surgeon, wanted IJN to remain a corporatised body and controlled by the Government.
“It (IJN) was never meant to be a commercial institute. It was meant to be a centre of research, a premier academic institute,” he told The Star in an interview at his office in the Damansara Specialist Centre yesterday.
He added that, as a pioneer who was directly involved in the setting up of the hospital in 1990, he was “taken aback” by the idea of privatisation.
“I was told that even the doctors (at IJN) were not informed of the idea (to privatise),” he said.
On the Government’s deferment to conduct an in-depth study, Dr Yahya said professional opinions should be sought as they were the service providers.
“This is to ensure the academic aspects of it are not pushed aside. However, I am sure, even as you lay all the facts and figures on the table, the right decision will be not to privatise the hospital,” he said.
Dr Yahya said IJN had done well and even generated income.
“Therefore, I am rather suspicious of the privatisation idea. It is not as if the hospital is not doing well. Ideally, a health institution such as IJN should be physician-led,” he said.
In 1989, a team led by Dr Yahya performed a coronary bypass operation on then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital. This subsequently initiated the setting-up of IJN in 1990 and the hospital was established two years later.
Decision on IJN is a political ploy, says Anwar
The Star (21/12/08): Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says the decision to defer privatisation of the National Heart Institute (IJN) is a political move, especially due to the upcoming Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election.
“The plan will likely resume after the by-election,” he told newsmen after launching Karnival Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim terbuka 2008 futsal competition, here, yesterday.
He was commenting on the Cabinet’s decision to conduct an in-depth study on Sime Darby Bhd’s proposal to take over IJN.
Anwar said any plan to privatise IJN would be of no benefit to the people.
“By privatising (IJN), the Government is actually abandoning one of its major social responsibilities to the rakyat,” he said, adding that IJN was built in 1992 using funds from the Finance Ministry with the objective of providing good and quality healthcare for the poor and middle class.
Anwar cited the privatised health system in the United States as an example where it had the best healthcare facilities in the world but the lower income group does not benefit.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
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