MUKAH Hospital is set to be upgraded to a minor specialist hospital, catering to the medical needs of Mukah division, including the communities in Mateding and Balingian.
Deputy Minister of Public Health, Housing and Local Government Michael Tiang Ming Tee said the project will be submitted under the Thirteenth Malaysia Plan (RMK-13).
The initiative aims to address the absence of an immediate hospital establishment in the Mateding area, which currently relies on Mukah Hospital, situated approximately 30km away.
“There is no immediate plan to establish a new hospital in Mateding.
“As a long-term strategy, the department will upgrade the existing non-specialist Mukah Hospital to a Minor Specialist Hospital to better serve the population in Mukah division, including the communities in Mateding and Balingian areas,” he said.
Tiang was replying to Balingian assemblyman Abdul Yakub Arbi during question time today on the plans to build a hospital in the Mateding Service Centre (Mateding junction) using Sarawak’s own framework initiative.
He said the upgraded hospital will provide specialist services such as general medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, pathology and psychiatry.
The Mukah Hospital is a non-specialised hospital with a capacity of 80 beds.
