Dr Adham Baba did not clarify problems of imbalanced oxygen pressure at Ampang Hospital due to high-volume usage that health workers linked to a spike in Covid-19 deaths.
Should investigations to penalise staff be carried out, more videos will be released. This is the cry of health care workers who have been working tirelessly for over a year and they will not be silenced anymore.
Covid-19 patients are now staying in ICU much longer, sometimes months, while ventilators, oxygen supply, and medications are running short, say Klang Valley health care workers.
MAEPS PKRC 2.0 receives an average of 800 Covid-19 patients a day, including an average 200 patients from Category Four with severe disease, says Dr Adham Baba.
Health workers battling burnout in hospitals across Ampang, Selayang, Klang, Kuala Lumpur, and HCTM report situations mirroring India’s Covid-19 surge, as bodies stack, wards overflow, non-Covid patients contract the virus in hospital, and systems malfunction.
Muscle relaxant drugs are running dangerously low in supply in many Klang Valley hospitals as they are being used for Covid-19 patients, leading to postponement of elective and semi-emergency operations.