Increase allocation for more robust public health service, PKR tells govt
Saturday, 08 Aug 2020 01:47 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 8 ― Allocation for public health as well as relevant personnel should be increased substantially in order to deal with a prolonged Covid-19 crisis. “The current allocation for public health in Budget 2020 is RM 5.66 billion out of the total Ministry of Health’s operating budget of RM 27.9 billion. As for human resources, 78,266 staff are in public health out of a total of 267,578 MOH staff,” they said.
They also suggested MOH to conduct more testing and utilise the spare testing capacity for sentinel testing, targeting more vulnerable groups such as those in elderly care facilities, prisons and blue-collar industries.
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