Covid-19: MOH might delegate powers to private doctors
February 5, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Health (MOH) is looking at delegating powers to private medical practitioners to handle COVID-19 patients.
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said so far, private medical practitioners were not authorised to deal with COVID-19 cases and only can refer them to a government facility.
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“With these delegated powers given, private facility doctors will be allowed to order high risk patients to undergo home surveillance order (HSO) and wear bracelets for monitoring.
“After completing the HSO, they can issue release orders as well as cut the patient’s bracelet,” he said in a Covid-19 State of Emergency engagement session held virtually with the media today.
Friday, 05 Feb 2021 10:04 PM MYT
BY EMMANUEL SANTA MARIA CHIN
MSU Hospital personnel take a swab at a Covid-19 drive-through screening in Shah Alam January 14, 2021. A second case of the B117 strain of the Covid-19 virus has been detected in Malaysia today, said Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. ― Picture by Miera Zulyana
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5 A second case of the B117 strain of the Covid-19 virus has been detected in Malaysia, revealed Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today.
The Health Ministry’s director-general said the latest case is of a traveller that recently returned to Malaysia from the Middle East.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 5): The Institute of Medical Research (IMR) is studying the use of saliva (early morning) and ‘deep throat saliva’ to be used as samples to detect Covid-19.
IMR Virology Unit head Dr T Ravindran said this was the latest discovery to replace samples currently taken from swabs on the nose and throat.
“We have evaluated them and they are as good as the samples we use now, which are swabs from the nose and throat,” he said in an engagement session on the Covid-19 pandemic with the Health director-general series 2/201 that was held virtually today.
This method is seen as important as it is “self-collected” and can save on the use of personal protection equipment (PPE).
Wednesday, 03 Feb 2021 04:51 PM MYT
Dr Sim (fourth, right) with the first volunteer (second, right) of the clinical trial for the vaccine developed in China at the SGH CRC today. ― Borneo Post pic
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KUCHING, Feb 3 ― Sarawak’s clinical trial for the Covid-19 vaccine sponsored by the Institute of Molecular Biology of China Academy of Medical Sciences (IMBCAMS) started today with two volunteers receiving their jabs at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH).
SGH infectious disease specialist Dr Chua Hock Hin said the injections given to the two subjects today were their first dose and they will receive their second dose within two weeks.
31 Jan 2021 / 22:37 H. Pix for illustration purposes.
MERSING: A total of 115 volunteers have been vaccinated under the third phase of a Covid-19 clinical study involving nine hospitals in five states.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said that they were the earliest group from 3,000 volunteers comprising individuals above the age of 18 years who met the stipulated conditions and criteria.
He said the hospitals used as the sites for the study under the supervision of the Institute of Clinical Research were Ampang Hospital and Sungai Buloh Hospital in Selangor; Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital and Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Kedah; Penang Hospital and Seberang Jaya Hospital in Penang; Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital and Taiping Hospital in Perak; and the Sarawak General Hospital.