ARE YOU A ‘FUTURE’ BURDEN TO YOUR FAMILY, COUNTRY AND LOVED ONES?

TANGKAK: Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman wants his fellow Johoreans to observe the credo, ‘prevention is better than cure’ as a measure to prevent diseases.

Abdul Ghani said diabetes is a modern illness which could lead to kidney failure and many sufferers needed dialysis treatment.

He said dialysis treatment is not cheap and in some cases – patients would undergo the process twice a week, thus making their lives miserable and unproductive.

With kidney ailment at its advanced stages, Abdul Ghani said the patients are not the only people who would suffer as their families also affected – resulting a drop in productive citizens.

To prevent such illnessses, the Mentri Besar said people should take good care of their health and refrain from taking too much sugar in their food or drink and exercise.

He said the state spends RM1mil every year to fund for dialysis treatment for civil servants, including its retirees when they suffered renal failure.

On the Tangkak Lions Club haemodialysis treatment service, he said it was noble for the non-profit organisation to provide subsidised haemodialysis treatment to needy patients who pay RM25 per treatment.

He said the centre operates six days a week caters for 20 patients and manned by a team of six staff, including a medical assistant and a clerk.

Abdul Ghani added that since the operational cost including staff salaries runs at RM40,000 a month, the state decided to provide the centre with a RM500,000 cash allocation.

Think – do you prefer to be a burden to your loved ones and the country?

Source: StarProperty

Imagine, what if you no longer can report for work because you need to go for dialysis twice a week? How would you survive without income, and yet still need to use a big amount of money every week for treatment?

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Increases in medical bills are outpacing the general inflation rate each year. That raises the question whether healthcare is reserved only for those who can afford it

“I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for”
- American bureaucrat, James H. Boren (1925)

WHAT is the value of a human’s health? Sixteenth-century English scholar and vicar at Oxford University Robert Burton put it at such: “Restore a man to his health, and his purse lies open to thee.”

That denotes that health is priceless, and almost everyone would pay anything to get well. (But why people does not pay to stay healthy? Aren’t human weird?)

With the doctors’ power to demand, medical services do not come cheap.

And with the continuous rise of investments in research and development as well as the adoption of the latest technologies to deal with the rapid emergence of new and complicated illnesses (and the re-emergence of some deadly ones), healthcare costs are soaring by the day.

So, who can afford to fall sick these days?

Across the world, the increases in doctors’ bills are outpacing the general inflation rate each year. It is estimated that the global medical inflation averages about 10% each year.

In Malaysia, medical inflation is estimated to be around 15% each year. That is to say, a simple appendicitis surgery that cost RM1,800 three years ago will set you back by about RM3,000 today.

Excerpt from TheStarBiz