Why use emergency when we freely offered help? asks medical group

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PETALING JAYA: The government’s decision to invoke emergency ordinances to use private healthcare assets to combat Covid-19 has left a medical group puzzled.

It says the sector has always been ready to assist in the fight against the pandemic and there was no need to use the emergency rules.

Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy CEO Azrul Mohd Khalib said the proclamation of an emergency appeared to involve harnessing the resources of the private sector, based on Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s speech on Tuesday.

He said this could mean some private hospitals and medical facilities being requisitioned to increase the public health sector’s capacity for intensive care, beds and specialised personnel.


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