Rush to get Covid testing lab ready at height of pandemic got MoH into trouble, says source

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Rush to get Covid testing lab ready at height of pandemic got MoH into trouble, says source
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SOP may have been bypassed as officials were more interested in results. FMTNews IMR Covid19 MACC

Staff at a health ministry Covid-19 testing laboratory. SOP may have been bypassed in the rush to procure RM30 million worth of such labs, says a source.

“But the reality is that there was and still is a high demand for testing laboratories from all over the world, so abiding by all SOP may take time,” a source told FMT. Health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah meanwhile said the ministry would cooperate with the MACC in its probe.

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