GOVERNMENT pensioners who seek medical treatment at government hospitals as outpatients are sometimes prescribed drugs that are not available at hospital pharmacies. These patients are advised to buy their medicines outside.

The current procedure for recovering the cost of purchasing such drugs outside government hospitals is unnecessarily cumbersome.

One has to travel all the way to the Pensions Department at Bangunan Mara (Kuala Lumpur) with the necessary documents and make his or her claim.

Since almost all who seek reimbursements are aged and sickly, it is indeed unfortunate that they should be subject

to such cumbersome procedures involving extensive travel and transport difficulties.

It is therefore suggested that the relevant authorities device a simple method of reimbursing those involved, such as at any post office.

This will curtail travelling problems for those living far from Bangunan Mara.

T.S. RAMASAMY,
Kuala Lumpur.

Source: The Star – January 23, 2008