No skipping classes at Likas hospital

BY OLIVIA MIWIL - 23 DECEMBER 2014 @ 8:08 AM


KOTA KINABALU: A CLASSROOM at a hospital here has helped young patients keep up with their studies while being admitted.   
Likas Women and Children’s Hospital is the 11th hospital in the country and first in Sabah to have such a facility.  
The “school-in-hospital” project here was initiated by Yayasan Nurul Yaqeen in 2011 with the collaboration of both the Health and Education Ministries. The patron of the foundation is Puan Sri Noorainee Abdul Rahman, the wife of the deputy prime minister.
Hospital director Dr Tan Bee Hwai said the patients, ranging from preschoolers to students, were encouraged to attend classes.
“Two sessions are held between 10am and noon, and from 2pm to 4pm on weekdays,” he said, adding that the number of patients attending classes differed every day.
The classroom, located at the hospital’s Radiotherapy and Nuclear Centre, gets about 24 students. Some days, however, there are no students.
Earlier, during the launching of the eight-storey centre, Dr Tan said the facility was equipped with high-end technology and an operation theatre for diagnostic and treatment purposes for cancer-related cases as well as a bone marrow unit.
The centre needs 40 specialists to handle over 200 types of cancers but there were only two at the government hospital.
Present were Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman, Health Ministry director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah and state Health Department director Dr Christina Rundi.
Musa said the setting up of the centre had helped to save more than a million ringgit a year by treating patients in Sabah rather than having them seek treatment in the peninsula.

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