The government has been lambasted for playing down the ongoing dengue epidemic in the country which has so far resulted in 100 deaths and over 45,000 cases. DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang labelled this as the worst dengue outbreak in the country and accused the government, especially the Health Ministry, of indulging in a conspiracy of silence. "It came as a shock to me, as it must be to all Malaysians, that 100 lives have been lost to dengue in the first 50 weeks of this year," he said in a statement today. He also lamented that the media too had failed to report the situation. Lim was responding to the latest dengue statistics released by the director of the Health Ministry's Disease Control Division Dr Hassan Abdul Rahman yesterday. Hassan confirmed that two more people had succumbed to the dengue fever last week, bringing the number of fatal cases in the country to 100. (Dengue outbreak: A conspiracy at work? - Malaysiakini)
Shocked? I'm shocked but not shocked at the same time. I think the Health Ministry is not interested, much less care about the health of the nation. Perhaps, it's busy with politics? I wonder.
Shocked? I'm shocked but not shocked at the same time. I think the Health Ministry is not interested, much less care about the health of the nation. Perhaps, it's busy with politics? I wonder.
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I do not know where the figures come from but 45,000 cases means 3,750 cases a month i.e. 121 cases a day. This is not quite believeable.
However if this is true I wonder what the Health minister been doing. Already he said 'melamine tainted biscuit was due to old stock' when a certain country discovered new melamine tainted biscuits which indicated there was no recall for tainted biscits.
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