Kota Kinabalu to have fourth hospital
June 15, 2010, Tuesday
KOTA KINABALU: A hospital with 800 beds will be built here, and upon completion it will be the fourth for the state capital, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin.She said the hospital would be constructed on a 20.2ha site at Bukit Padang.
She pointed out that it would not be an upgrading or an extension of the existing Bukit Padang psychiatric hospital.
The new medical facility was among the eight general hospitals planned under the 10th Malaysia Plan that was unveiled last week by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
According to Rosnah, the new hospital and the upgrading of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) would ensure sufficient medical facilities to meet the needs of the people here.
Apart from the QEH, the other government hospitals are the Likas Women and Children’s Hospital and the Sabah Medical Centre in Luyang.
Meanwhile, Hadi Awg Kassim, the confidential secretary to Rosnah, said yesterday that Rosnah never mentioned during an interview with the media here on Sunday that the new hospital would be built late next year.
“She merely made a general comment regarding the construction of the new hospital,” Hadi said when clarifying news report in the local media (not the Borneo Post).
