PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry will cooperate with the Transport Ministry to monitor certain private clinics claimed to be issuing health certificates to Goods Delivery Licence (GDL) and Public Service Vehicle (PSV) drivers without need for a medical check-up and for as low as RM4.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai viewed the claim, if true, as a serious concern and unethical on the part of the medical practitioners.
“Those applying for GDL and PSV licence must really be healthy to be qualified. Action can be taken against such doctors and clinics,” he told reporters after launching the 5th Malaysian Clinical Research Convention 2011 at Sunway Pyramid, here yesterday. — Bernama
Commenting on the claim made by a Malay-language local newspaper that drivers with chronic eyesight problem, epilepsy or were drug addicts had been allowed to handle public vehicles, he acknowledged that there had been such an incidents.
“But we found that it was not the doctor who committed the impropriety, it was the driver who had falsified the health certificate issued by the clinic, he said. — Bernama