There s little point in shipping asymptomatic people to Sungai Buloh and Serdang and further stretching these centres.
These medical facilities are not hospitality or catering services. Sure, the toilets can be cleaner, but stop whining about the food and services.
Our frontliners have been tasked with saving lives, and they are risking theirs daily when they go to work at these healthcare centres.
Given the Emergency powers the government wields now, it s imperative we increase Covid-19 beds and ICUs by integrating the public and private sectors, and government-linked companies.
But these facilities amount to nothing if we re short of doctors and nurses. Private medical personnel need to be conscripted into a national army of medical Covid-19 fighters because we re at war. This is national service, so we must call on them.
Tougher measure: It should be mandatory for employers to enforce mass targeted testing so that infectious contacts can be rapidly identified, since cases are increasingly asymptomatic. AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star
IT has been a pretty depressing few weeks for me. I lost a former schoolmate and friend to Covid-19. Two former colleagues from The Star also succumbed to the dreadful virus.
Prominent surveyor and real estate expert Michael Geh became another casualty a week ago from complications arising from Covid-19.
His condition deteriorated 10 days after being admitted into intensive care for testing positive. He had to be intubated after his heart and kidneys weakened.
GEORGE TOWN: Property consultant Michael Geh and his wife went into the low-risk Covid-19 centre in Penang as patients with mild symptoms but only one left when he succumbed to the deadly disease.
GEORGE TOWN: Michael Geh (pic), one of the country’s foremost property consultants, has died of cardiac arrest after contracting Covid-19.
The 57-year-old, a regular at property conferences and speaking circuits around the world, breathed his last at 1.45pm yesterday after developing complications while battling the disease at Penang Hospital.
His sister Linda said Geh was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit on May 9 after testing positive for the coronavirus.
“He had hypertension and according to doctors, the virus weakened his heart and kidneys.
“He was intubated and we thought he had a fighting chance, ” she said.
Geh, a former student of St Xavier’s Institution here, was a registered valuer and real estate agent and senior partner of Raine & Horne International Zaki and Partners Sdn Bhd.
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