Doctors confused by many ministry guidelines

PETALING JAYA: Some private medical practitioners are confused by the Health Ministry’s guidelines on how to treat patients with influenza-like illnesses (ILI).

Federation of Private Medical Practitioners Associations Malaysia president Dr Steven Chow said the many guidelines that were issued were often conflicting.

For example, Dr Chow said general physicians (GPs) had been asked at one point to send all cases to the nearest hospital for testing; and when the hospitals could not cope, they were asked to send only selected cases.

He added when deaths were first reported, private doctors were blamed for late diagnosis and referrals to government hospitals.

“When dengue was not controlled, they were blamed and then the A(H1N1) came. - + selanjutnya

Doctors confused by many ministry guidelines