Liberty, Equality, Fraternity For All Sabahans.
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Born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah ( Formerly British North Borneo) to a working class family. My father was a police officer, while my mum was a clerk.
I am married to a wonderful nurse and we have a baby boy.
My early KK education was in Chung Hwa Kindergarten, SRJK St Agnes and SM All Saints. Subsequently, I continued my education in St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane, Australia and completed a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from the University of Queensland in 1991. While in Australia I was very active in overseas student affairs especially in helping new Sabah/Malaysian students via the Sabah Students Association and Malaysian Students Association.
I decided to travel to India where I successfully completed a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB,BS) from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in 1997. In India I continued being in the forefront of student affairs.
Since my return to Sabah I have worked in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu and Hospital Duchess of Kent in Sandakan.
I was the Hospital Director in Hospital Beluran, where I saw first hand how poor and desperate our Sabahans are. I tried my best to help them. I successfully fostered high team spirit among my staff that culminated in us achieving the prestigious full three years Accreditation award from MSQH (Malaysian Society for Quality in Health).
After Beluran I was seconded to University Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur for two years. On my return I was tasked with the duty of starting medical services at the brand new Hospital Pitas. Making Hospital Pitas operational have been a challenge to my administrative skills. Being short of doctors I still had to see in-patients, go on call, escort patients to KK as well as being the Hospital Director.
In 2008 after 13 years in government service, I decided to resign to join a medical practice in Kota Kinabalu. But prior to that I served as an officer in UKAPS (Unit Kawalan Amalan Perubatan Swasta) in Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah Headquarters.
As a Sabahan born and bred, having been a doctor and hospital administrator in Beluran and Pitas (unarguably among the ranks of the poorest districts in not only Sabah but Malaysia), I understand the health needs of the people in Sabah. I have the medical skills, people skills and administrative skills but most importantly the patriotic fire to fight for the rights of Sabah and Sabahans which have been neglected for so long.
From the state rich in natural resources especially timber and petroleum, Sabah now has to beg bowl in hand to kuala Lumpur. We must stop the rot and fight for our rights as safe-guarded by the 20 points agreement when Sabah joined (I emphasise Joined) to form Malaysia. Now except for a very rich few, the rest of Sabahans are treated as third class citizens.
Sabahans may NOT have a General hospital, enough doctors, Uninterrupted Electricity supply, Clean potable water, clear unpolluted skies or even new gen sets, but Sabahans have the power to change all this by the stroke of the pen. We still have a chance to vote to bring a tsunami of change to sweep away the rotten and bring in new people who really care and will work hard for the rights of Sabahans before it is really too late.
SAVE SABAH, SAVE MALAYSIA.
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Awards:
- Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang 2002 (Distinguished Service Award 2002) from Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah (Sabah Medical Services Department).
- The Outstanding Young Person of Sabah 2007- Certificate of Merit for Humanitarian & Voluntary Service from JCI (Junior Chamber International, Kota Kinabalu).
Membership:
- Chairman, DAP Tanjung Aru branch.
- Chairman, Sabah DAP Medical & Health Advisory Bureau.
- Chairman, Residents committee of Dah Yeh Damai, Kota Kinabalu City.
- Life Member, DAP
- Life Member, Malaysian Medical Association.
- Life Member, Hakka Association.
- Contributing Partner, MAKNA (Malaysian Cancer Foundation).
- Contributing Partner, WWF (World Wildlife Foundation).
- Volunteer Medical Doctor to NGOs.
- Lions club of Tanjung Aru.
- The Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia.
- Society for the Advancement of Hormones and Healthy Aging Medicine Malaysia.
Berani kerana benar…
hi bro,
remember me? found your link at Malaysiakini. Glad to see you have achieved so much in so little time….
Good doctor and good Lions =) Proud to have you in our Lions Club of Tanjung Aru
Thank you President Lion Conan for yr wishes. Cheers.
There are many Sabahan who is well educated but not many willingly to sacrifice for others for our right. So am very proud of you for being brave, bold and consistently to stand for the truths. May God Bless you and family.
TQ for yr encouragement sis… It is easy to be the silent majority, ever ready to Put down anyone with ideas or ideals. Much harder to put your face in the public, say what you believe in and defend yourself (and your family) from being targeted by more powerful and unscrupulous parties for saying what you believe in.
Change is in the winds. We must work hard towards it with all our hearts to save this great land we call home, Sabah Tanah airku….
Never ever say that we cannot make change because we can.
Never say we are afraid to change because the alternative is the death of our land by corruption, corrupted leaders and cronyism…in the end we end up in servitude or slavery to outside parties as the colonized!
God Bless the brave and the humble!
we need more sabahan like you Dr. who is willing to sacrifice comfort and pleasant working enviroment and attending peoples and states problems.
will always supports any sabahan who willing to put Sabah people interest first.
hopefully your dream of helping sabahan and the states will materlise in future.
may god bless on You….
TQ for your support. I really appreciate it as I am only one soul.
Just like a single branch when bent is easy to snap and break but it is not easy to break if there are many branches united together.
United Sabah can be great again. From the richest state in terms of natural resources after 48 years we have the highest poverty rate in the country with the most poor, landless people. After 48 years instead of getting developed by the use of our natural resources (gas and oil, timber, human resource) we find ourselves the poorest beggar state.
Yearly we contribute about 40% to the country’s coffers (ie RM60 Billion yearly), but we are treated like monkeys and given peanuts while our money are siphoned off to develop other states like Johor and Melaka. Case in point in Budget 2012, of the RM243 Billion, ONLY RM5 billion are given to Sabah. Is this fair taking into account our contribution to the country’s coffers? I think any sane person would agree with me that it is NOT fair.
How do we change this state of affairs is to change the current corrupt government, who are using any means by hook and crook (more crook) to stay in power including giving MyKads (citizenship) to any foreigners who will vote to keep the UMNO/BN govt in power. Also using all branches of the government which they control including the Police, Courts, MACC, Army and even the Election commission. Plus a HUGE war (election) chest.
We have to fight (like David vs Goliath)to gain back the dreams of our forefathers who were well meaning albeit maybe a bit naive or innocent to believe the sweet words of the federal leaders and their money.
We can only do this by aggressively combating and wiping out all forms of corruption. What we need are good governance and transparency to Save Sabah and Save Malaysia.
I fully agreed with your comments. I am here to assist you all the way