9 June 2021
To get migrant workers to cooperate, the authorities need to first start treating them like human beings.
Tag: migrant workers
5 May 2021
Letter
Building A Fairer And Healthier World For Migrants — Dr Alia Daniella Abdul Halim, Prof Dr Moy Foong Ming & Prof Dr Noran Naqiah Hairi
An upstream intervention approach at the institutional level together with a multisectoral collaboration is needed to tackle NCDs among migrant workers.
28 April 2021
Letter
Workers Must Be Protected With A Safe And Healthy Work Environment — Dr Lo Ying-Ru Jacqueline & Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa
Covid-19 has reinforced the need for resilient national occupational safety and health systems to be in place.
11 March 2021
The government should set up Covid-19 vaccination sites in migrant workers’ workplaces or their housing areas.
22 February 2021
Dr Adham Baba says certain large companies may be asked to provide their own quarantine centres to isolate asymptomatic employees who are positive for Covid-19.
20 January 2021
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.
23 December 2020
The first million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine scheduled for February 2021 delivery will be prioritised for frontliners.
23 December 2020
The Penang state health department says in response that it, Socso, and Penang-based private medical practitioners have agreed for Covid-19 screenings to be conducted in stages as a temporary measure.
1 December 2020
Khazanah Research Institute stresses that Malaysia’s national strategy to limit the spread and impact of Covid-19 should not exclude foreign workers.
23 November 2020
The current SOP where a patient confirmed Covid-19 positive is isolated at the clinic and made to wait for pick-up by an ambulance or the Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah (PKD) officers is not practical.