Sarawak MP calls for urgent reforms to state’s health system
BY SULOK TAWIE
He said the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed severe inadequacies within the state’s healthcare system and this should provide the opportunity for decisive action to ensure universal healthcare for all, with a specific focus on the rural population in Sarawak. “All ‘Projek Hospital Sakit’ must be resolved urgently and more local Sarawakians must be trained as frontline healthcare workers to ensure local capacity is strengthened and local talent retained to serve local communities.
“When patients fall sick, they must have access to timely critical care facilities, ventilators and specialist care,” he said.
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