KUALA LUMPUR: The agenda to empower senior citizens and Orang Asli will continue to be stepped up with more than RM1bil allocated for the group next year, says Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.
Have a heart: Dr Samsu said the worry and fear among some businesses are understandable but stigmatising is not the way, as more people would be misinformed.
PETALING JAYA: The misconception that frontliners are in constant contact with Covid-19 patients has led to many of them being stigmatised.
This is in stark contrast to a year ago when all frontliners were hailed as national heroes at the beginning of the country’s Covid-19 battle.
Dr Peter Lim, 30, who is attached to a university hospital in Selangor, said medical frontliners encountered a fair share of discrimination, which deterred them from going out of their workplaces in their working attire.