He has eight children to support!
By putrashahrul
http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/01/26/will-ong-ka-ting-review-the-phfsa/
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January 26th, 2008 (4 days ago) at 10: 05.49 Actually that doctor DOES possess a valid Annual Practising Certificate.
The requirement that the _clinic itself_ be registered, is a NEW requirement, which came up very recently. I’m not sure if there is a similar law, requiring lawyer offices to be registered, and to comply with regulations concerning doors, walls, floors and ceilings, and equipment (fax machine? computers? phones? printers?).The Act requiring registration of clinics was forced through despite calls by various people, including Datuk Mahadev Shankar (member of the present Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam videotape affair) who had publicly criticised the PHFCSA1998, who had called for it to be amended before implementation, as “it gives too much power to the DG, and was passed without consultation with the medical profession.”
http://the-malaysian.blogspot.com/2006/08/draconian-act-that-should-be-laid-to.html
If you examine the circumstances surrounding this doctor, you’d probably feel sorry for him – he was struggling financially, with unpaid utility bills and personal debts.
To comply and register under the new PHFCSA1998, he might have to spend further sums of money to buy unnecessary new emergency equipment (which necessity had been debated by many doctors in online forums!), as well as spend sums of money on unnecessary (but required by the Act & Regulations) renovations, including CHANGING THE DIRECTION HIS TOILET DOOR OPENS!
Apart from that, the fees alone, to register his clinic, cost RM1,500.
Can you imagine paying RM1,500 for a piece of paper, made mandatory by a new piece of legislation? To get a perpective, the Annual Practising Certificate only costs RM50!
This doctor pleaded that he was in the process of selling his clinic, and would have thought that the new buyer would register it, and probably figured that it would have been a matter of a couple of months difference only, and therefore not worth registering the clinic.
The new law requires that the new doctor-owner would have to RE-register it anyway!
The poor doctor could not even afford to engage a lawyer to defend him or mitigate for him!
And now he is going to jail!
He has eight children to support!