more than 95 per cent of the rural population have access to a doctor.
It can be said that every Malaysian has access to good primary healthcare. In many countries, rural areas are often neglected but not so in Malaysia.
There are 2,965 clinics and 151 mobile clinics in rural areas in the country, which is why Malaysia has won kudos for its rural health programmes from international agencies such as the International Health Organisation.
In the provision of primary healthcare, the Health Ministry has in fact achieved its target ratio of clinics to population: there is one health clinic or centre for every 20,000 people while there is one community or rural clinic for every 4,000 people.
Services at the clinics include curative, family health, dental, nutrition and dietetics, health education and promotion, home nursing, care of the elderly, rehabilitative services, environmental sanitation, adolescent health and community mental services.
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