On one hand, long queues at public hospitals, on the other, astronomical bills at private ones. For many Malaysians, there’s no good option. That’s the gap Rakan KKM claims to fill: offering fee-based, expedited care for non-emergency procedures inside public hospitals. Is this a pragmatic ‘third lane’ between the extremes of unaffordable private care and overstretched public hospitals? or does it risk deepening inequality by allowing those who can pay to skip the queue? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Dr Mark Cheong, a Public Health & Palliative Care Researcher and Deputy Head of School (Education), School of Pharmacy at Monash University Malaysia.
