Shortage of Staff Nurses

This letter is to inform on the shortage of staff nurses at Seremban General Hospital. Some wards are intense with patients and admission always at peak. My wife work at one of the ward often express worry of these lacking staff which may result many other unwanted consequences .

Normally each staff nurse will took charge of 4 patience . But now it can be triple and even more . At any time in the ward could amounting above 40 patients .They need to cover many task in attending each patients .This derive to many medical mismanage cases due to nurse fatigues . Staff nurse sometimes need to submit the explanatory letter for the faults occur and the complaints are getting increase. This at the end badly reflect on their performance evaluation record . Also numerous cases nurses that on pregnant ended miscarriage because have to work extra and heavily due to lack of staff. Sometimes they need to do double duty that stretch of 14 hours working a day.

Nurses are also susceptible to disease which transferred by the patients. One reported case which involve the staff nurse suffered Tibi which now jeopardized his life by her own career.

I urge the government and director of hospital take this matter seriously. The health of the nurses need to put at the top priority. Government need to identify the GH which having intense work of handling patients. The additional staff need to address urgently. This is to ensures that quality of health care that provided is at Par and error due to human can be mitigated.