Severely sick Covid-19 patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu have to wait for up to two days in the emergency department before entering ICU.
Federal MOH protocol does not list any guideline for home treatment of confirmed Covid-19 cases, as all confirmed cases must be admitted to hospital, except low-risk cases who can be admitted directly to low-risk quarantine and treatment centres.
Despite the acute shortage of doctors, long waiting times for a simple outpatient appointment, longer waiting times for non-emergency surgery, these young doctors are not guaranteed a permanent position in the public sector.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers says the Ministry of Health (MOH) did not issue a home surveillance order to Khairuddin Aman Razali upon arrival from Turkey.
What is needed is the political will to make sustained and strategic investments in order to ensure that every Malaysian is able to receive high-quality healthcare whenever they need it.
This has led to some patients with chronic diseases unable to receive desired treatment. Recent sources revealed that several deaths were recorded among this group of patients, which is of course not included under the Covid-19 death statistics.