LEAN Healthcare ke 133 hospital awam

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Johor Bahru: Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia (KKM) bercadang memperluaskan sistem pengurusan LEAN Healthcare ke 133 hospital awam di seluruh negara susulan kejayaan projek perintis yang dijalankan di Hospital Sultan Ismail (HSI), di sini.

Ketua Setiausaha Negara Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa berkata, inisiatif LEAN Healthcare terbukti memendekkan waktu menunggu pesakit mendapatkan rawatan dan mengatasi isu kesesakan selain sudah diamalkan di Amerika Syarikat, Australia dan United Kingdom.

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To beat malaria and dengue, vaccinate the mosquitoes

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If there’s one thing the malaria parasite wants, it’s to get inside the guts of a mosquito. Once there, it releases hundreds of wormlike cells that enter the human body through a bloodsucking bite. Now, scientists have found a way to make mosquitoes much less hospitable to this pathogen, as well as the one that causes dengue: stacking the insect’s gut with killer microbes that wipe out the invaders before they have a chance to cause disease.

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