Recognition of Dr. Noor Hisham by CGTN as one of the world’s top three doctors in public health in Covid-19 pandemic is a most deserved commendation as he is the saviour of Malaysians in the second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak


Pengiktirafan Dr Noor Hisham sebagai seorang daripada tiga doktor kesihatan awam terulung dalam pengendalian wabak Covid-19 oleh CGTN datang pada waktu yang sangat tepat memandangkan beliau adalah wira negara yang menyelamatkan kita semua semasa gelombang kedua wabak koronavirus sedang menular

Pengiktirafan Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah oleh China Global TV Network (CGTN) sebagai seorang daripada tiga doktor kesihatan awam terulung dalam pengendalian wabak Covid-19 beliau adalah sangat bertepatan, memandangkan beliau adalah wira negara yang menyelamatkan kita semua semasa gelombang kedua penularan koronavirus.

Jika pihak berkuasa di Malaysia sentiasa bersikap bertanggungjawab dan berjaga-jaga, pasti kita semua akan dapat mengelakkan penularan gelombang kedua wabak ini.

Semasa gelombang pertama penularan wabak ini, kita berjaya mengekalkan kadar jangkitan rendah, pada paras 22 jangkitan tanpa sebarang kematian. Namun, gelombang kedua wabak ini mencapai paras baru hari ini dengan sejumlah 5,182 jangkitan, 2,766 kes yang telah pulih dan 84 kematian.

Tanpa penguatkuasaan perintah kawalan pergerakan (PKP) dan kepimpinan yang ditunjukkan oleh Dr Noor Hisham dalam memerangi wabak Covid-19 ini, kadar jangkitan dan korban nyawa di negara kita mungkin kini akan berada di dalam satu situasi yang jauh lebih teruk.

Semasa PKP dikuatkuasakan pada 18 Mac, hanya 17 negara mempunyai jumlah kes positif yang melebihi jumlah di Malaysia. Tetapi hari ini, 35 buah negara mempunyai jumlah kes positif yang lebih tinggi daripada kita.

Apa yang paling mengejutkan adalah Amerika Syarikat, yang kini mendahului dunia dengan mempunyai jumlah kes jangkitan tertinggi, melebihi 650,000 kes, hampir tiga kali ganda jumlah kes di negara di tempat kedua iaitu Sepanyol yang kini mempunyai 180,000 kes.

Semasa PKP dikuatkuasakan, Amerika Syarikat mempunyai kira-kira 13,000 kes dan 100 kematian.

Sebagai penghormatan kepada pengiktirafan ini, pihak kerajaan harus memastikan penyelesaian segera terhadap isu yang dibangkitkan beliau mengenai kekurangan alat pelindungan diri (PPE) yang kini makin berkurangan kerana peningkatan kadar permintaan.

Di New York malam semalam, para jururawat telah mengadakan majlis peringatan untuk mengenang pengorbanan rakan sekerja mereka, — memandangkan bandar tersebut kini menjadi pusat penularan utama wabak ini — dan juga untuk memberi amaran kepada semua yang mereka masih menjalankan tugas mereka tanpa alatan pelindungan yang penting.

Lebih daripada 10,000 orang telah meninggal dunia di New York akibat wabak koronavirus ini, dan dalam kalangan mereka adalah para doktor, jururawat dan petugas sokongan kesihatan. Yang bertungkus lumus menjalankan tugas mereka yang mendedahkan mereka terhadap virus ini setiap, dalam keadaan kekurangan alat pelindungan diri (PPE), yang juga meletakkan risiko yang tinggi kepada para pesakit lain yang dirawat mereka.

Marilah kita mempelajari pengajaran daripada wabak global ini dan memberikan keutamaan untuk memastikan para petugas barisan hadapan dalam negara kita mempunyai bekalan alat pelindungan diri yang mencukupi, ketika mereka mempertaruhkan nyawa mereka, dengan berjuang dalam peperangan melawan wabak koronavirus ini.

(Komen Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada hari Khamis, 16 April 2020)

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The recognition of Health Director-General Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah by China Global TV Network (CGTN) as one of the world’s top three doctors in public health in the Covid-19 pandemic is a most deserved commendation, as he is the saviour of Malaysians in the second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

If the Malaysian authorities had been responsible and vigilant, Malaysia would have been spared the second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak.

In the first wave of the outbreak, we have kept the incidence low at 22 Covid-19 confirmed cases without any fatality, but the second wave reaches new heights with today’s score of 5,182 Covid-19 confirmed cases, 2,766 recoveries and 84 deaths.

Without the imposition of the movement control order (MCO) and the leadership of Dr. Noor Hisham in the invisible war against Covid-19, the final scores in the second wave for both the total confirmed cases and deaths would have been very much worse.

When the MCO was imposed on 18th March, 17 countries had more Covid-19 confirmed cases but today, Malaysia has less Covid-19 confirmed than 35 countries.

What is most shocking, the United States which leads the world in having the most number of Covid-19 confirmed cases, have over 650,000 cases, more than three times that of the next worst-affected country, Spain, which has 180,000 cases.

The Covid-19 death toll in the United States is over 30,000 cases or over 360 times Malaysia’s death toll of 84.

When the MCO was first imposed in Malaysia, United States had about 13,000 cases and about 100 deaths.

In honour of Noor Hisham’s recognition by CGTN, the government should ensure the resolution of the concern expressed by him about personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontliners running out of supply as their use had risen by two to 10 times in Malaysia.

In New York last night, nurses held a vigil to mark the deaths of their colleagues since the city became one of the biggest coronavirus hotspots in the global pandemic and to warn that they are still working without vital protective equipment.

More than 10,000 people have died in New York from the coronavirus, among them an untold number of doctors, nurses and medical support staff. With jobs that bring them into close daily contact with the virus, and a continuing shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the risk for healthcare workers other patients they treat is especially high.

Let us learn from the lessons of the global pandemic and give priority to ensure that the frontliners in Malaysia have adequate supplies of PPE when they put their lives at risk in the frontlines of the invisible war against the novel coronavirus.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on Thursday, 16th April 2020)

  1. #1 by Bigjoe on Thursday, 16 April 2020 - 9:43 pm

    You have got to be kidding? DR. NOOR has done a good job but to call him one of the top 3 in the world is clearly China’s propaganda and political manipulation to win friends in its contest with US over the debacle of the crises which clearly China is in a deep hole.

    We saw the problem developed from a far since January and even when Singapore acted urgently, we were slow to act. 4 weeks after MCO, numbers are not bad but normalcy is not within our grasp..
    Even taking account, we lack resources and our political leaders mediocrity, Dr. Noor is not in top 3 as South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and likely a few others have bigger challenges and faster and better result.

  2. #2 by drngsc on Friday, 17 April 2020 - 4:09 pm

    Hahahahahahaahaha. In most country, this crisis being a very serious one, the head of government briefs the country. UK, USA, Germany, France, Indonesia, India, etc etc etc. In Malaysia, the PM is so busy plotting, sacking and fixing, the Minister made a fool of himself, and so the DG becomes the TV personality. Make no mistake, only a TV personality. The cookbook recipe is all from WHO. He has ran out of test kits, more than once, ran out of PPEs again, and has cause a severe economic cost due to prolong MCO. The worse is yet to come. When frontliners start dying, then you may have second thoughts.

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