This will ensure flood victims are able to get the best medical care possible

by AFIQ HANIF / pic TMR FILE

THE Ministry of Health (MoH) will assign a total of 11,085 public health personnel to help flood victims at Temporary Transfer Centres nationwide, MoH Minister Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar said.

He claimed that the action was taken to provide the best medical care possible to flood victims.

Furthermore, he stated that a total of 4,263 members, comprised of 1,820 members of the rapid assessment team and 2,443 members of the rapid response team, will carry out rapid assessment and response to victims or situations affecting disasters.

“According to data collected from state health departments, 552 out of 2,891 health facilities are at risk of flood disasters,” he told the media after the opening ceremony of the Disaster Management Seminar and the book launching of “An Overview of Disaster Life Support in Disaster Management” in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

Furthermore, he stated that MoH will coordinate the mobilisation of medicine stocks during floods for stocks that are in short supply.

“Monitoring cases of infectious diseases, particularly water-borne diseases like cholera, typhoid fever, leptospirosis and hepatitis A are also being done,” he said.