The opposition leader also urged the government to focus solely on addressing issues of Covid-19 management, such as manpower shortage in the public health care system.
If all public and private health care resources are collectively mobilised, we will have sufficient surge capacity to keep the pandemic under control until we achieve herd immunity through widespread vaccination.
Attributing the increase in the numbers of cases to the public’s compliance with standard operating procedures is pathetic especially when the public have no means to control the spread among migrant workers.
The Sabah state government must turn their state-owned hotels into quarantine facilities as the current designated quarantine facilities have reached maximum capacity.
Doctors in Sungai Buloh Hospital’s Covid-19 wards have to review patients, clerk new admissions, discharge patients, take blood, do referrals to relevant subspecialties, and attend to emergencies in between, with the help of only two to three nurses.
Serdang Hospital, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, and Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang Hospital are still facing Covid-19 outbreaks among health care workers, hospital staff allege.