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Khairy Jamaluddin says while contract public hospital cleaners are employed by concessionaires, the companies received concessions from the Health Ministry.
The number of MOH’s permanent health care workers have risen from 149,031 in 2010 to 214,534 in 2021, though by annual percentage it has fallen from a high 8.89% in 2013 to 1.28% as of September this year.
MOH recorded 7,027 confirmed Covid-19 cases in health care workers in August alone; among 14,554 breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated health care workers, only 27 were in Categories Three to Five.
Staff are constantly infected with Covid-19 and put under quarantine; one staff was recently involved in an accident on the way to work (unsure if this was due to work fatigue).