SUNGAI PETANI: The government was urged to provide a bigger allocation through the 2020 Budget for the Health Ministry to improve the quality of health services in the country.

Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah (pix) said one of the things to be focused on was to increase the number of specialist and medical personnel posts at the government hospital.

“We, the Ministry of Health hope to spend more (in the 2020 Budget) on the Ministry of Health, in an effort to improve the quality of our services; in terms of gaining more posts for our specialists and medical personnel,“ he said at a press conference in Semeling, near here today.