SHAH ALAM (Bernama): The Health Ministry (MOH) has taken various drastic and immediate steps pertaining to Covid-19 patients at the Tengku Ampuan Rahiman Hospital (HTAR), Klang, including maximising the hospital capacity to enable more patients to be treated.
MOH secretary-general Datuk Mohd Shafiq Abdullah said the bed occupancy rate for Covid-19 patients at the hospital, which is categorised as a state referral and Covid-19 hybrid hospital, is currently at 154.73 per cent, equivalent to 1,098 patients.
Mohd Shafiq was responding to a letter from Klang MP Charles Santiago dated Aug 11 and a media report on the current Covid-19 situation in HTAR. Mohd Shafiq said from January to July 2021, the ministry has approved an additional allocation of RM57.3mil under emergency procurement, specifically for medical equipment such as ventilators, patient beds, infusion pumps, blood glucose machines, patient monitors and other essential needs.In addition, Mohd Shafiq said the hospital received an additional 151 beds from the ministry last month, and another 200 beds, as well as 30 ventilators, would be delivered to the hospital early next week.
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