Healthcare system near critical point Pix for representational purpose only. PETALING JAYA: The public healthcare system in the Klang Valley is at breaking point and experts say the government should consider sending non-Covid patients to private hospitals so that the strain on public hospitals can be reduced. Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy founder and chief executive officer Azrul Mohd Khalib said private hospitals can only act after being permitted to do so by the Health Ministry. “The reality is that expertise for infectious diseases is concentrated in the public healthcare system, not the private sector. “Doctors trained in public health and infectious diseases and who are now working in the private sector should be allowed to work in the public sector,” he said.