New government, new health leadership: Resetting the war against Covid-19 — Liew Chin Tong
AUG 17 — With the resignation of the Muhyiddin government, the new prime minister and his or her new government must put war against Covid-19 on the top of their list.
To fight this pandemic and prepare our healthcare system for future crises, as well as to pre-empt an increasingly ageing society, the health portfolio should be seen as one of the “great offices”. As a nation, we need to reform the healthcare system beyond Covid-19. The pandemic exposes all the existing weaknesses which would require leadership, political will and visions to rebuild. The new health minister must also be able to articulate health policy choices for the nation in the years to come, including health financing, data collection and analysis in healthcare, prevention and management of future pandemics, etc.
Dr Noor Hisham’s erstwhile insistence on using PCR tests and refused for months to deploy RTK-antigen tests in a big way slowed the process of testing significantly. Even now, Malaysia tests too few. We need to test at least 300,000 people or 1 % of our population a day. A PTD officer can be posted from one ministry to another, from agriculture to health to defence, and from federal to states. A good officer would know all the rules and have extensive peer contacts across the entire government structure.
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