KUCHING, Oct 12 2025: Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Dr Sim Kui Hian has said that the state government will look into the details of the RM6 billion in development allocation announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in Parliament last Friday.
“As in the past, the development allocations announced in the federal budgets, are meant for the completion of existing on-going projects in Sarawak,” he said when responding to the federal Budget 2026 that Anwar presented in Parliament.
Dr Sim, who is also the Public Health, Housing and Local Government Minister, said Sarawak has financially contributed enormously to Malaysia over the last 50 years.
“It is time for federal government to give back our fair share so that we are not left behind with 70 per cent of federal government clinics and hospitals in Sarawak in dilapidated conditions which need RM17 billion to upgrade while Peninsular Malaysia has less government health facilities in dilapidated conditions,” he said.
Dr Sim, however, expressed his gratitude to the prime minister for speeding up the implementation of the Sarawak Cancer Centre in Kota Samarahan.
He said the centre is not just for the convenience of patients from Sarawak but is doing justice to the oncologists who are recognised worldwide but choose to serve in Sarawak.
He likened the oncologists serving in Sarawak to the Formula 1 drivers, but driving an ordinary car.
Dr Sim also expressed his hope that the federal government would consider the Sarawak government’s proposed formula on the special yearly grants payment accorded to both Sarawak and Sabah.
He said both states started receiving the RM600 million interim special payment under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 this year and to be continued next year.
He said the Sarawak government has submitted a formula to the federal government that the payment be based on certain formula rather than interim.
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