Public hospitals in Besut, Setiu, and Hulu Terengganu can only be accessed via water or air transport. Floods have affected 40 public health care facilities in Terengganu and 32 in Kelantan.
The Malaysian Medical Association, concerned with Terengganu’s criminalisation of out-of-wedlock pregnancy and childbirth, says punitive actions have not been shown to ever decrease unplanned pregnancies in the many decades of research.