PARLIAMENT A BN lawmaker grilled Deputy Health Minister Dr Hilmi Yahya over hospital equipment and lack of specialist doctors, claiming that in remote areas in Sarawak, those who go to hospitals end up dead.

"In government hospitals, if an equipment breaks down, it is not a matter of how many days (to fix it) but months.

"In Bintulu, if patients want to meet specialists, they have to wait for months (too).

"In Sarawak's remote areas, people walk in to the hospitals, but leave on a trolley. They are gone (dead)," said Tiong King Sing (BN-Bintulu).