MP SPEAKS | Covid-19: How do we manage the third wave differently?
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MP SPEAKS | The announcement of the new movement control order (MCO) in some places and conditional MCO or enhanced MCO in others, was largely anticipated. This is indeed a huge admission of failures of the federal government to manage the raging third wave.
Much to the chagrin of everyone, the extension of MCO is surely very damaging to both livelihoods and lives and heap a colossal impact on our already ailing economy and businesses of the rakyat; on mental health and depression; as well as the collateral damage on non-communicable diseases (NCD) care, and another generation with lost educational opportunities.
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PETALING JAYA: A new approach is necessary to help Malaysia win the Covid-19 war and this could entail the public and private healthcare facilities sharing the load, among other things.
According to health experts, this could be done by having public healthcare facilities focus on Covid-19 cases while other patients are sent to private hospitals.
They said that the Covid-19 war has turned out to be the most serious challenge yet for the Malaysian healthcare system, as public and private healthcare facilities are close to full capacity.
The Health Ministry has reached out to the Defence Ministry, seeking help of the Armed Forces in setting up field hospitals in Kelantan and Sarawak, two of the most badly affected states.
Malaysians must not let their guard down and become complacent, especially now that people are getting vaccinated, because the vaccine is only one of several measures to control the spread of Covid-19.
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