UTAR and Hospital Tapah to share resources

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) was among the 22 public and private institutions of higher learning selected to sign an agreement with the Ministry of Health (MoH) on 16 April 2012 at Hospital Tapah to share their resources with the hospital.

Signing the agreement on behalf of UTAR was its President Ir Prof Academician Dato' Dr Chuah Hean Teik and on behalf of the MoH was its Secretary General Datuk Kamarul Zaman bin Md Isa. While UTAR Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Deputy Dean Prof Dr Yap Sook Fan and MoH Deputy Director General of Health (Medical) Datuk Dr Noor Hisham bin Abdullah signed as witnesses.

Present to officiate the event was Minister of Health Dato' Sri Liow Tiong Lai. Other present were Perak State Executive Committee Member Dato' Dr Mah Hang Soon and MoH Director General Dato' Sri Hasan bin Abdul Rahman.

Under the agreement, UTAR agrees to provide full- or part-time medical specialists in the areas of internal medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesiology, general surgery and orthopaedic surgery, at Hospital Tapah. In addition, if required by the Government, UTAR medical specialists will assist in providing teaching and training to the medical officers and other staff of Hospital Tapah, and also provide patient care service at the hospital. UTAR will be accessible to Government medical officers or other Government servants, if they are available, to assist in the bedside teaching and training of UTAR students at the hospital.

Under the agreement, the Government agree to upgrade Hospital Tapah to render specialist services available, including the construction of an operation theatre centre for patients of the general surgery, orthopaedic surgery and complicated obstetrics and gynaecology services, a houseman quarter for placement of house officers, and a specialist quarter for the on-call medical specialists. There will also be procurement of new equipment to support specialist services such as CT scan for diagnostic imaging, ventilators for intensive care, automatic bacterial culture machine for culture and sensitivity. Additional formulary drugs and surgical-based service staff will be procured for the specialist services. Clinical posting of UTAR MBBS, nursing and health science students will be allowed at Hospital Tapah.

"The agreement signed at Hospital Tapah expanded the facilities and resources available to our medical, health sciences and allied sciences students," said Prof Chuah, adding that UTAR always assure their students with adequate teaching and research resources.

"It is truly heartening to see MoH and higher learning institutions coming together to act as a team. The smart partnership would foster excellence and professional development for both the universities' students and the hospital staff," said Dato' Sri Liow.

With Hospital Tapah included, for related courses, UTAR is now accessible to the resources of 14 Government hospitals. The others are Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Hospital Putrajaya, Hospital Ampang, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Hospital Kajang, Hospital Selayang, Hospital Serdang, Hospital Sultan Ismail (Johor Bahru), Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun (Ipoh), Hospital Melaka, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (Kuantan), Hospital Queen Elizabeth (Kota Kinabalu), and Hospital Sibu. UTAR is also accessible to the facilities of the private Tung Shin Hospital and Hospital Sungai Long and eight public community clinics throughout the country.



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