The Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall is concerned that Malaysia’s current prisons and detention centres do not have health and medical facilities that are up to standard.
Fixing the health system to put us in readiness for an Omicron surge and other potential new variants is doable; the harder part is addressing the structural and systemic problems, whether it’s urban poverty, our treatment of migrant workers, or prison overcrowding as a result of punitive drug laws.
The Benteng LD cluster that sparked Sabah’s Covid-19 outbreak started because the detainee that tested positive was only screened after he was placed in prison.