I have grave reservations that Muhyiddin Yassin, the person responsible for the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and the millions of Covid-19 cases and tens of thousands of Coivid-19 deaths is Chairman of the National Recovery Council.
Muhyiddin said yesterday that he has been given the same amount of authority as when he was Prime Minster to make decisions for the National Recovery Plan (NRP) except when it involves money.
When Muhyiddin became Prime Minister on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero Covid-19 deaths. When he resigned as Prime Minister 17 months and 16 days later on August 16, 2021, there were a cumulative total of 1,424,639 Covid-19 cases and 12,780 Covid-19 deaths.
Now, there are 2,121,934 Covid-19 cases and 24,078 Covid-19 deaths.
When Malaysia celebrated the 63rd National Day on August 31, 2020, Malaysia was ranked No. 89 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.
We are likely to overtake Peru on Thursday and be ranked No. 20 among nations in the world for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.
If there is any one person who must assume responsibility for Malaysia becoming one of the worst performing nations in the world in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic, that one person is Muhyiddin Yassin and nobody else.
We are now told that under Muhyddin’s premiership, there had been under-reporting of the Covid-19 deaths and that there is a huge backlog of corpses in the government hospitals awaiting analysis and post-mortems.
Even up to now, after one month of the change of Health Minister, the Ministry of Health is still unable to clear the backlog of Covid-19 deaths in the hospital morgues.
I have asked the new Minister of Health, Khairy Jamaluddin, to make a Ministerial statement in Parliament on the true position of Covid-19 deaths and the Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 death cases, but they had fallen on deaf ears.
Yesterday, more than a month after the change of Health Minister, there were 334 deaths including 84 BIDs – placing Malaysia as the world’s Top No.6th country among nations in the world for daily Covid-19 deaths
Why is Khairy refusing to give a full disclosure about the true position of Covid-19 deaths in the country?
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021)
Saya mempunyai keraguan terhadap Muhyiddin, individu yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kekalahan kita dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, membawa kepada berjuta kes dan berpuluh ribu kematian akibat Covid-19 yang kini menjadi pengerusi Majlis Pemulihan Negara
Saya mempunyai keraguan besar terhadap perkara di mana Muhyiddin Yassin, individu yang bertanggungjawab menyebabkan kekalahan kita dalam perang melawan wabak Covid-19, membawa kepada berjuta kes dan berpuluh ribu kematian akibat Covid-19 yang kini menjadi pengerusi Majlis Pemulihan Negara.
Muhyiddin telah katakan semalam yang beliau telah diberikan kuasa yang sama seperti semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri untuk membuat keputusan mengenai Pelan Pemulihan Negara (PPN) kecuali apabila ia melibatkan wang.
Semasa Muhyiddin menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020, kita mencatatkan 29 kes Covid-19 dengan sifar kematian. Apabila beliau meletakkan jawatan 17 bulan 16 hari kemudiannya pada 16 Ogos 2021, terdapat sejumlah 1,424,639 kes dan 12,780 kematian akibat Covid-19.
Kini, ada 2,121,934 kes dan 24,078 kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam negara.
Semasa Malaysia menyambut Hari Kebangsaan ke-63 pada 31 Ogos 2020, kita berada di tempat ke-89 dari jumlah kes terkumpul berbanding dengan negara lain di dunia.
Kita berkemungkinan akan mengatasi kedudukan Peru pada hari Khamis ini dan berada di tempat ke-20.
Sekiranya ada sekurang-kurangnya satu individu yang perlu bertanggungjawab mengenai perkara ini, di mana Malaysia menjadi antara negara yang mencatatkan prestasi terburuk di dunia dalam melawan Covid-19, individu tersebut adalah Muhyiddin Yassin.
Kita sekarang dimaklumkan bahawa di bawah pentadbiran Muhyiddin Yassin, terdapat kejadian kurang lapor kematian akibat Covid-19 dan terdapat kes terkumpul (backlog) jenazah di hospital kerajaan yang menanti analisis dan pembedahan post-mortem.
Sehingga hari ini, selepas sebulan bertukar Menteri Kesihatan, Kementerian Kesihatan masih belum dapat menghabiskan backlog di hospital kerajaan ini.
Saya telah meminta Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, untuk membuat kenyataan menteri di Parlimen mengenai kedudukan sebenar kadar kematian akibat Covid-19 dan kematian dibawa ke hospital (BID) tetapi seruan ini tidak diendahkan.
Semalam, selepas lebih daripada sebulan kita bertukar Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat 334 kematian akibat Covid-19 termasuklah 84 kes BID — meletakkan negara kita di tempat ke-6 di dunia dengan kadar kematian harian tertinggi.
Mengapakah Khairy enggan untuk memberikan penjelasan penuh mengenai kedudukan sebenar kematian akibat Covid-19 di negara kita ini?
(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 22 September 2021)
