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KUALA LUMPUR: The trend of admission of Covid-19 cases to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is still at a high level with the total ICU bed occupancy rate surpassing 90 per cent, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
At the same time, he said the medical and health frontliners were suffering from burnout’ symptoms because they had been dealing with so many Covid-19 cases for an extended period of time.
“The MOH (Ministry of Health) would like to inform that the average number of new daily cases for seven days (June 30 to July 6, 2021) is 6,539 cases and it is still high compared to the 4,000-daily threshold target for the PPN (National Recovery Plan),” he said in a statement yesterday.
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As of yesterday, there were 143 positive cases involving 62 health workers 81 patients at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang Hospital, while the Serdang Hospital has 65 cases involving 37 staff and 28 patients. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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SHAH ALAM, Dec 21 Screening will be soon be conducted on all staff at Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) Klang, following the recent spike in Covid-19 cases at the facility.
Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the state health department is currently looking into the best mechanism for the purpose, apart from implementing targeted screening to reduce risk of transmission at the hospital.