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PUTRAJAYA – Newly appointed health minister, Dr Zaliha Mustafa has pledged to address issues involving the placement of graduate doctors and the direction for specialists as well as providing better health services to meet people’s needs.
Dr Zaliha said other issues she will focus on are related to the marginalised, matters pertaining to infrastructure and various health and hospital needs, mental health, and the supply of medicine.
“Certainly an immediate priority is to examine preparations for Budget 2023 that will be tabled in Parliament starting December 19.
“Hopefully, the health sector will be given a comprehensive allocation which can meet the needs,” she said in a statement posted on her Facebook page today.
She expressed hope that civil servants and medical practitioners would support her to make every plan of the Health Ministry a success.
“The appointment as health minister is a great responsibility entrusted upon me,” she said.
The Sekijang MP, who was born on June 28, 1964, took the oath of office before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara today, together with two deputy prime ministers and 24 ministers in the unity government cabinet line-up announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday.
Dr Zaliha also described the health portfolio as something close to her heart, as she started her career in medicine in 1989 at Sultanah Aminah Hospital Johor Baru.
“Alhamdulillah, the 10th prime minister (Anwar) has listened to the voice of the grassroots and the people for this portfolio to be held by a medical practitioner, and this matter has already been fulfilled,” she said. – Bernama, December 3, 2022
