Calling all doctor and student bloggers and anyone who can help. The Government has begun to arrest and jail doctors on a technicality – not registering their clinic with the PHFSA. This act treats doctors like common criminals. These are community doctors who have not committed a serious crime but instead face an incredibly harsh sentence for their technical lapse.
Dr Basmullah Yusom, a family practitioner, is the first victim of this legislation. He was sentenced despite not having legal counsel representing him, despite pleading for leniency (he had wanted to sell the clinic anyway and is in financial trouble) and as he could not pay the hefty RM 120,000 fine, he is now in Kajang prison.
You can read more about it in
The 1st clinic doctor convicted under the PHFSA
and
The 1st clinic doctor convicted under the PHFSA (II)
The ex-Health Minister had promised that the Act would be used only against Bogus doctors and Bogus clinics. Yet, we see that legitimate licensed APC holding medical practitioners are now being targeted.
In support of Dr. Basmullah, we urge all of you to put up this logo in your Blogs and Websites until this travesty of justice is reversed. Please download or link to the above image.
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Original post here.
My two cents: Damn… Lucky that my boss had registered. But anyway, jailing a genuine doctor who make this kind of mistake is a big mistake. Ironically, we never heard anything about bogus doctors being jailed.
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This is sad. I’m sure there are better ways to handle such issues leh..
Yes Kay… Our medical association are now working hard to help that doctor. Hopefully that would be the first and the last person to be jailed.
free him free him
this is the beginning, soon everyone will be at mercy of you know who
they are too free, got real criminal don wan to catch, only find those small easy and easy job to do…
cos doctor are more easy to catch then criminal, and also no dangerous job too…
if here can perform like those movie one, so brave to catch criminal, then we mid nite no need close door also can sleep
You are right, iClavyn!
This is very sad. Agreed to iClawyn.
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