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Mawar Medical Centre may stop haemodialysis services nationwide

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It says it will have to wind up as it has no funds to pay its 500 staff and health ministry has not issued any licences.

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Mawar Medical Centre hopes the government will accept its 798 dialysis patients, including in Sabah and Sarawak, to help them continue intensive care.

SEREMBAN:
The Mawar Haemodialysis Centre, owned by Mawar Medical Centre (MMC), is likely to discontinue its operations throughout the country due to the lack of licences and serious lack of funds, said MMC chairman Chua Lay Ping.

She said MMC will send a letter to the health ministry, state health director Dr Zainudin Mohd Ali, Menteri Besar Aminuddin Harun, and state Health, Environment, Cooperative and Consumer Affairs Committee chairman S Veerapan on the next measures the government needed to take.

“We hope the government will accept 798 dialysis patients across the country, including in Sabah and Sarawak, and help them to continue intensive care.

“We hope the government can take immediate steps to assist these patients,” she told a press conference here today.

She said the absence of the licences had also resulted in more than 500 MMC and haemodialysis centre staff being laid off.

“Currently, MMC is only able to pay employees’ salaries up to this month.

“If they still cannot get a licence from the health ministry, MMC has no other choice but take the final step to do a winding-up to pay the existing debts via the sale of all assets,” she said.

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