Cardiovascular disease has been the top cause of mortality in Malaysia. It was reported earlier this year that death due to heart diseases has more than doubled in the past 10 years, with a total of 13,503 deaths in 2017 compared to only 8776 deaths in 2007.
When Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad suffered a heart attack back in 1989, he placed his confidence in our local doctors to perform his bypass surgery. Realising that cardiac disease was a major cause of mortality in the country, he mooted the idea of having Malaysia’s own centre of excellence for cardiovascular diseases, hence IJN was born. To date, the country’s premier referral centre for cardiovascular diseases, has treated about 4 million patients since it first opened its doors in 1992.
THE JOURNEY
Joining IJN in 1995 as a Senior Registrar in Cardiology, Dr Aizai has had the privillege to grow in leaps and bounds together with the institute, rising from a consultant cardiologist to top management level over the years. Thanks to IJN’s management which provided ample opportunities to hone his knowledge and skills through trainings and further studies abroad.
Clarifying the mist on IJN’s status, Dr Aizai dismissed the notion that IJN was a semi-government hospital. He said although IJN was 99.9 percent owned by the Ministry of Finance, it operated under the private healthcare facilities act, therefore it had always been a fullfledged private hospital.
Dr Aizai, who completed Advance Management and Leadership programme at Oxford University in 2017, believes being owned by the government, has given IJN the autonomy to hire the best cardiovascular doctors, acquire state-of-the-art equipment technology and constantly train its staff to provide the best care for its patients. It has also enabled IJN to realise its vision of becoming a global centre of excellence for cardiovascular diseases.
This story is from the January 2020 edition of Business Today Malaysia.
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