Ninth President Of Malaysian Chinese Association Dr. Chua

Ninth President of Malaysian Chinese Association, Datuk Chua Soi Lek, also referred to as Chua Kin Seng is a Malaysian Politician from the state of Johor. He’s trained in psychology. Before going into the politics he was practicing psychiatry then he gave his service as a minister of Health for four years, starting from 2004 till 2008. He wanted to join politics as a full-time politician and because of that he sold his clinic. Before that Dr. Chuahad served the Batu Pahat as a medical officer.

His political career started since 1986 when he was first elected as a state assembly man. He was elected for Penggaram. Johor and served Penngaram for 18 years. He won 4 state elections consecutively. Throughout his career, he was appointed for several prominent posts. Dr Chua was also appointed as a state Dr. Chua executive counselor. Datuk Chua Soi Lek claimed victory in the 2004 general election and chosen for the Labis parliamentary seat under the Barisan National coalition and then he became Minister of Health in Malaysian Cabinet. He was chairman of Batu Pahat MCA division, Committee chairman of Johor MCA state liaison, the vice presiclint of MCA and the Member of Parliament for Labis.

Datuk Chua Soi Lekwas generally known as very high experienced leader at state level and Federal level. During the period of his health ministry, Dr. Chua had made many positive changes. He directed all the district level health officers and hospital directors to perform clinical work. Dr Chua promoted a campaign which focused physical activity, giving up alcohol, coping with stress, exercise and wealth eating. When the poor Malaysians asked for financial help from the Medical Aid Fund, Dr Chua worked on different moves to cut down red tape. The pig farmers signed the loyalty pledge which stated that they would not use agonist. He implemented syringe and needle exchange program and methadone maintenance therapy. These programs worked as the harm reduction program.

He worked to raise the salary by RM1, 900. Datuk Chua Soi Lek extended the operating hours on the selected health clinics and ship from one year to 2 year. The implementation resulted in the adequate clinical training and experience. The emphasized a separate counters for serving the patients with the senior citizens the disabled and chronic diseases at different government hospitals.

The waiting time is cut down to 90 minutes. Earlier the waiting time was three hours. These changes which were instituted by Dr. Chua made him a strong proponent to healthy living Malaysians. He took steps to Bann fast-food companies from advertising on programs for youngsters or sponsoring tv shows for children. Then changes made by Dr. Chan show his positive and excellent hands on work during his Healthy Ministry. In the general elections, MCA contested for 40 seats and out of theses forty seats they may only won 19 parliamentary seats.

The MCA is a Malaysian political part which represents the Malaysian-Chinese ethnicity and is among the three major constituent parties of the Barison Nasional which is the ruling coalition in Malaysia. Along with the other 2 major component parties i.e. United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and Malaysian Indian congress (MIC), MCA continues to have strong forte in the politics of Malaysia.

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