Look Outside Greater Klang Valley To Avoid Repeating Mistakes Govt Told

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(From left) Opposition MPs Dr Kelvin Yii and Tony Pua says health minister Dr Adham Baba should look at his government’s own national recovery plan.KUALA LUMPUR: The health ministry must look beyond the Covid-19 situation in the Greater Klang Valley and address the surge in cases in other states, says Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii.
Yii said looking at the latest statistics, the situation was worsening in Kedah, Penang and Perak with all its intensive care unit (ICU) beds quickly filling up.
“We are seeing small steps of the tragedy that is happening in the Greater Klang Valley, (currently) happening in these states,” he said in a press conference today.
He said if the country failed to implement the Find, Test and Trace, Isolate and Support framework along with vaccination (FTTIS+V), the government would find itself “repeating the same mistakes”.
Yii said that health minister Dr Adham Baba should follow the public health strategies published under the national recovery plan by his own government.
“If it is not implemented, I foresee that we will have hidden clusters and a surge in cases will happen in states outside of the Greater Klang Valley,” he said.
Meanwhile, Damansara MP Tony Pua described Adham’s speech in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday as “paragraph after paragraph filled with statistics, figures and a list of steps taken by the health ministry”.
He noted that Adham did not discuss the effectiveness of his ministry’s approach in curbing the pandemic.
“Malaysians don’t know why the infectivity rate and positive cases are significantly rising even though they have been under the movement control order since May. There is no answer from the health ministry or ministers,” he said.
Pua said Adham did not touch on the national recovery plan or the FTTIS+V system, although the prime minister had said the five-day special parliamentary sitting was for the government to brief other MPs on the plan.
“What is presented between the prime minister, the finance minister and the health ministry, are different. It’s like they’re not part of the same government,” he said. - FMT

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