UPM wants to turn Hospital Serdang to teaching hospital facility

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin with disabled student Suhazli Muhamed at the UPM mosque yesterday. — NST picture by Syarafiq Abd Samad
SERDANG: A proposal to turn Serdang Hospital into Universiti Putra Malaysia's teaching hospital will be submitted to the cabinet soon.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the Higher Education Ministry had completed a working paper on the proposal and it would be discussed in a cabinet meeting in the near future.

"No doubt the matter is important for UPM, but at the moment it should be studied carefully.


"If we want to build, it will be costly and if taken over, we must consider the implication," he said told UPM staff and students during his working visit yesterday.

UPM had requested the government approve its wish to have its own hospital to help increase productivity, especially in medical research.

Its vice-chancellor Datuk Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi said he believed UPM would be capable of generating higher productivity and giving greater impact if the university has its own hospital.


The UPM medical faculty and its students are based at Serdang Hospital but they do not have complete freedom to conduct research as the hospital is under the Health Ministry.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the objective of a regular hospital differed from a teaching hospital as it concentrated only on providing medical service.

"A teaching hospital has to conduct research and development and produce specialists. We will bring this matter up to the cabinet and I hope I will get everyone's support."



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