Developing A Working Corporate Waqf Framework For Malaysian Public Hospital
Literature showed many collaborations of waqf with private organization and public organizations but there they has not been a collaboration of waqf with a public government hospital in Malaysia. This research therefore, aims to study and explore a working corporate framework of a waqf-based hosp...
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| Summary: | Literature showed many collaborations of waqf with private organization and public
organizations but there they has not been a collaboration of waqf with a public
government hospital in Malaysia. This research therefore, aims to study and explore a
working corporate framework of a waqf-based hospital in Malaysia whereby
contributions from waqf can be accommodated and collaborated in a conducive
partnership with a public hospital to provide better services for the general public
especially for the poor and underprivileged, whilst deploying the mannerisms of the
Malaysian Islamic Fatwa on waqf and abiding the laws of the Malaysian Government.
This research is a qualitative research using a grounded theory approach, adopting
constructivism and interpretivism, inductive and qualitative analysis. Data is collected
from literature reviews and face-to-face interview with in-depth, semi-structured
questions, qualitative method with a total of 8 respondents selected from purposive and
snowballing sampling. Manual coding and NVivo 12 were used to analyse the data
collected. The research found elements from historical waqf-based hospitals in the 8th-
14th CE and some essential elements from the interview of present hospitals (public,
private and waqf-based hospitals). From the past, amongst others, sustainability,
decentralized management were found and in the present, other avenues of waqf
funding, the transformation of an Islamic culture for waqf-based hospitals, spiritual and
charity-based mission and separate charity funding are amongst those discovered and
discussed. This research has a significant practical implication in the collaboration of
waqf funding with a public government hospital such as in providing and upgrading
services for the general public and offering affordable healthcare to the poor and
underprivileged. This will also provide alternative funding which can be the ultimate
goal of every modern economist as a massive reduction in government expenditure can
result in a reduction in budget deficit. This research also offers potential innovative
funding in a private-public partnership in healthcare services and other public services.
In this pandemic era of Covid-19, the impact of healthcare can be long term. Hence,
funding is therefore crucial and essential for treatment and management such as in the
production of the vaccination. Waqf funding, can be an additional source of funding,
which can have better implications in assisting public healthcare. |
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