The PM announced the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative to build an Academic Medical Centre in his 2011 budget speech today. The PM said, this will enhance the private sector involvement in economic activities… the project details is… the project is a joint venture between Academic Medical Centre Sdn Bhd, Johns Hopkins Medical International and the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.

But some quarters said, the government should maintain and upgrade the current healthcare system.  Privatized healthcare is making healthcare inaccessible and unaffordable to low-income consumers. Government needs to increase the allocation for public healthcare services to upgrade the quality of services.

Whatever it is, we hope, the Academic Medical Centre will produce high quality health professionals and the government have to make sure there are enough health care jobs available out there so that the products from the academy don’t go into waste…