KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Health (MOH) is looking at delegating powers to private medical practitioners to handle Covid-19 patients. Health direct.
Published on: Saturday, February 06, 2021
By: Bernama
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Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said so far, private medical practitioners were not authorised to deal with COVID-19 cases and only can refer them to a government facility. (AP pic)
Kuala Lumpur: The Ministry of Health (MOH) is looking at delegating powers to private medical practitioners to handle COVID-19 patients.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said so far, private medical practitioners were not authorised to deal with COVID-19 cases and only can refer them to a government facility.
“With these delegated powers given, private facility doctors will be allowed to order high risk patients to undergo home surveillance order (HSO) and wear bracelets for monitoring.
Published on: Friday, February 05, 2021
By: Bernama
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Kuala Lumpur: A total of 4,756 frontliners from the Ministry of Health (MOH) have been infected with COVID-19 so far, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said, of the total, 3,101 involved female staff, and 1,655 were male. Most of them got infected in the community and not in the facilities where they work, he said in an online engagement session with the media on COVID-19 here today.
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The session was also attended by Senior Consultant Physician for Infectious Diseases from the Sungai Buloh Hospital, Datuk Dr C. Suresh Kumar, Head of Virology Unit of the Medical Research Institute (MIR) Dr T. Ravindran, National Public Health Laboratory director Dr Hani Mat Hussin and Medical Practices Division senior principal assistant director Dr Mohamed Ahsan Mohamed Ismail.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5): The Ministry of Health (MOH) aims to increase the capacity of Covid-19 tests in laboratories nationwide to 200,000 tests a day, says Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said although the 68 laboratories currently conducting the tests had reached 100% capacity with over 76,000 tests a day, there were still private laboratories, laboratories at university hospitals and Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) hospitals that could help increase the capacity. With a unified command centre, besides the fact that we can move our patients to the hospitals, it is important for the laboratories at these hospitals to help increase the number of tests to 150,000 to 200,000 per day so that we can test more samples, he said during an engagement session with the media on COVID-19 here today.
Covid-19: MOH might delegate powers to private doctors
February 5, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health (MOH) is looking at delegating powers to private medical practitioners to handle COVID-19 patients.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said so far, private medical practitioners were not authorised to deal with COVID-19 cases and only can refer them to a government facility.
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“With these delegated powers given, private facility doctors will be allowed to order high risk patients to undergo home surveillance order (HSO) and wear bracelets for monitoring.
“After completing the HSO, they can issue release orders as well as cut the patient’s bracelet,” he said in a Covid-19 State of Emergency engagement session held virtually with the media today.