IPOH: Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah today opened the Women, Children and Cardiology Complex (KWKK) at the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital (HRPB) here.
Present were Raja Permaisuri Perak Tuanku Zara Salim; Raja Muda Perak Raja Jaafar Raja Muda Musa; Raja Puan Besar Perak Raja Nazhatul Shima Idris Shah; and Raja DiHilir Perak Raja Iskandar Dzulkarnain Idris Shah.
Also in attendance were Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad and Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad.
Dr Dzulkefly said the ministry strives to provide a more fair and equitable health service system, of high quality, easily accessible at a reasonable cost and sustainable for the long term to meet the health needs of the people, such as outlined in the Health White Paper.
"The government has offered many facilities to provide the best and international standard health services.
"Perak now has 15 hospitals, five of which are specialist hospitals, 88 health clinics, 73 dental clinics, 10 maternal and child health clinics, 222 clinic villages and 18 community clinics," he said in his speech today.
He said HRPB is a large state hospital and one of the oldest hospitals in the country as it was first established in 1891, known as a district hospital with a capacity of 50 beds.
"The hospital was upgraded to a state hospital in 1942 and continued to grow with the development of the Specialist Clinic Complex in 1992 and in 2005, the Daily Treatment Complex was established.
"In 2017, this hospital was made the lead hospital for the Ipoh cluster as well as a referral centre for non-lead hospitals, namely Batu Gajah Hospital, Sungai Siput Hospital, Kampar Hospital and Bahagia Ulu Kinta Hospital," he said.
He added now by having KWKK, HRPB is one of the three largest hospitals in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur Hospital and Penang Hospital with a capacity of 1,394 beds, 22 operating theatres, 33 adult intensive care unit beds, 10 cardiac care unit beds, 12 pediatric intensive care unit beds and 24 neonatal care unit beds.
"This complex was built at RM237 million on a site with an area of 14,671 square meters under allocations in the 10th Malaysian Plan.
"This is a large provision in the expenses of a hospital to ensure that health services can be implemented optimally to all Malaysians in general and the state of Perak in particular," he said.
He added this complex offers health services from three departments which are the Cardiology, Paediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology which is equipped with 404 facilities beds, six operating theatres and 304 parking lots for staff and the public.
"This complex also provides three support services namely Radiology, Pharmacy and Sterile Material Supply Unit services for support the continuity of service provision in this building," he said.
Dr Dzulkefly said primary health care delivery was one of the reform strategies in transforming service delivery health as contained in the Health White Paper.
"Therefore, I hope that this complex continues to be able to provide the best service to guarantee the well-being of the people in achieving the targets set by the government," he said.
Sultan Nazrin also visited three clinics in the KWKK building as well as the exhibition held in conjunction with the opening ceremony today.
