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PETALING JAYA: Managing Director of Health Tan Sri Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah (Photo) has denied an MP’s claim that he had not been to Sabah to check on the leaders’ efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
He clarified that he traveled to Sabah at the end of August to verify the management and preparations of the Covid-19 before the state elections, adding that the deputy director general of health for public health, Datuk, Dr. Chong Chee Keong, and the advisor Special Prime Minister on Public Health Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood went to Sabah last week and two weeks ago, respectively, to check the Covid-19 situation there.
“The issue that we are afraid of dying does not arise. As a Muslim, I accept that death can happen anywhere, not just if I go to the ground or not.
“The important thing is that we do our duty. We can have our differences but the important thing is to break the chain of contagion so that we can save the country from an increase in cases and mortality rates, ”he said yesterday during a press conference.
He was responding to GPS MP Bintulu Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing, whose comments about him had caused a stir yesterday at the Dewan Rakyat.
Tiong claimed that Dr. Noor Hisham did not go out into the field and visit hospitals during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic because he “feared for his life.”
Tiong asked why the Director General of Health did not go to Sabah when Covid-19 cases were at their highest in the state.
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