Curbs on admitting rights of visiting doctors?

This was mentioned in Pagavalan’s blog:

Ministry of Health is also strengthening their enforcement unit and introducing many new rules and regulation for private hospitals and clinics. Recently, we were told that Visiting Consultants in a private hospital cannot admit any inpatients.They are only allowed to see outpatients. I understand that this new rule came about after the incident at the Chinese Maternity Hospital, Seremban where MOH had to close down the inpatient services, end of last year. The hospital was surviving with visiting consultants to run their inpatient services. Unfortunately, this new rule will have severe impact on hospitals and consultants. This basically means that a consultant who runs his own clinic outside would not be able to admit any patients to any private hospitals anymore. It also prevents Consultants from government sector to have any admission rights in private hospitals despite government allowing them to do locum/out of office hour’s session in private hospitals. Is this an indirect way of MOH in preventing their doctors from doing locum outside?

We would like to see it in black and white whether such a blanket ruling exists. If it affects only MOH specialists I can understand,  but if it is a directive which covers the private sector I am not so sure, especially about the legal and other ramifications.
Right now the situation is such that some disciplines e.g. specialised surgery like neurosurgery,  may require the services of visiting specialists to attend to in-patients. It is just not practical nor possible to have such specialists in all hospitals nor in many cases is not wise nor convenient (from the patient’s perspective) to transfer out patients. This is why private hospitals often have such visiting doctor arrangements.
Having visiting specialists attend to in-patients is a common practice around the world. It is a matter of the individual hospital’s accreditation mechanism to allow the doctor to do so.
It would be a pretty waste of human resources to deny this.