PUTRAJAYA – A total of 430 Health Ministry personnel will be sent to Sarawak next Wednesday to assist in the state’s Covid-19 fight, said Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.
The decision to increase the number of health personnel in the state follows his visit to Sarawak on Monday and Tuesday, during which he visited the Covid-19 quarantine and treatment centre at Stadium Perpaduan in Kuching.
“Based on the situation there and the findings from the visit, we found that there is an urgent need to increase the number of health workers in Sarawak. This will be carried out in stages,” he told a press conference here today.
He said Sarawak needs 1,436 health workers, including medical officers, assistant medical officers, microbiological science officers, nurses and drivers.
“The health workers who will be sent (to Sarawak) are those who have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.”
He said almost 600,000 frontliners have received the first dose, and almost 470,000, both doses.
Sarawak today registered a whopping 512 coronavirus infections. – Bernama, April 15, 2021
