SHAH ALAM – A total of 150 additional volunteers will be mobilised to help smoothen operations at Covid-19 assessment centres (CAC) in Selangor, especially at Malawati Stadium here.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said the volunteers comprised civil servants, local authority enforcement officers, medical staff at Selcare clinics, and medical students from private universities, who would assist in managing traffic and Covid-19 patients as well as conducting assessments on patients.
“Other facilities such as 20 units of tents equipped with fans, chairs, and a PA system was also provided at the Malawati Stadium CAC yesterday for the convenience of the public,” he said in a statement today.
In a related development, Amirudin said the state government has agreed to set up a call centre to be managed by volunteers, to help reduce the CACs’ burden in conducting home assessments.
Besides that, he said the state government also proposed that private clinics and medical facilities (private CACs) with general practitioners be given the permission to give home surveillance orders (HSOs) and provide quarantine wristbands to individuals who tested positive for Covid-19 and their close contacts.
As such, he said, Covid-19 patients could go to private CACs instead of district CACs, with 65 general practitioners in the state given permission to give HSOs.
Amirudin said special counters would be set up at Malawati Stadium from next week for the removal of quarantine wristbands and release from home quarantine.
“This will reduce congestion and risk of infection to those who have completed their quarantine,” he said.
Meanwhile, the menteri besar said he was informed by the state Health Department of the addition of 300 beds at intensive care units and 1,300 beds at the low-risk Covid-19 quarantine and treatment centre at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS).
In addition, he said MAEPS would only treat patients from Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, following the decision to set up PKRCs in the central region such as in Negri Sembilan, Melaka, Pahang and Johor. – Bernama, May 17, 2021
