Khairy should give a proper answer as to why there are high Covid-19 death rates and high  BID deaths and not play  tai chee

(Tatal ke bawah untuk kenyataan versi BM)

The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, should give a proper answer as to why there are high Covid-19 death rates and high Brought-in-Dead (BID) deaths in Malaysia and not play tai chee.

In Kota Kinabalu yesterday, Khairy said the high number of Covid-19 deaths reported daily does not reflect the actual number of fresh deaths that occur within 24 hours.

He explained that the numbers are sometimes piled up over several days as the authorities need time to confirm the cause of death, especially in places like the Klang Valley which also have a high Covid-19 vaccination rate.

He said: “The daily death reports are not necessarily from the last 24 hours. There is a long backlog because we have to confirm the cause of death is from Covid-19 and not something else”.

Khairy said most of the backlog was a result of the high number of people brought in dead (BID) to hospitals, as their causes of death had to be investigated before they can be reported as a Covid statistic.

“Hopefully we will see a reduction in two to three weeks once we clear the backlog on deaths registered.

Khairy said most of the BID cases were Covid-19 patients who were quarantined at home and were not taken to the hospital in time as soon as their condition deteriorated.

He said many Covid-19 patients were also told to self-isolate at home and monitor themselves, and instructed to seek medical attention only when their conditions worsen.

“Without the right supervision, it is too late for them by the time they get sent to the hospital.@

I asked a medical practitioner what he thought of Khariy’s reply. This is his response:

“In summary, the causes of BID is likely to be poor communication between care giver and patient and inadequate treatment for these people being left alone in isolation to die.

“You tell a patient, lets us say 65 years old, quarantine him in a room with his handphone and panadol.

“What do you think runs through his mind? He knows that Covid can kill. So he ask, why is there no treatment to help me get well. Even if you do not wish Ivermectin, at least that patient deserves a small medical kit containing vitamin D, C, Zinc and an antibiotic.

“These are all drugs shown to help immunity and the last to combat coincidental infections. That medical kit serves as an assurance that he has a chance to get well. By all means monitor but give him something to give him hope. Hope keeps people alive.

“Healthy people below age 60 with category 1 and 2 has a 90% chance of survival if there are no comorbidities. The important comorbidities are obesity, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, cancers. These people even in category 1 and 2 should be admitted as they have increased risk of dying.

“Backlog : Once a person is BID, and they do a RTK-Ag test and if it is positive, that person is certified as a Covid death. That should not take more than 2 hours for test result. Is KJ saying that all BIDs are coroner’s case requiring Post-mortem?

Post-mortem may have a backlog. RTK-Ag test takes 2 hours. Back log is minimal. I do not believe that they are doing Post-mortems for all BIDs.

“If there is really a backlog, is it just the previous fellow’s inefficiency? Is he saying that the previous Minister did not do his job and KJ is tidying up? BUT the DG is the same. Please ask DG why the backlog?

“If there is a backlog, what is the estimate of the number? How many corpses are piling up? Does that mean that our Covid death is now nearer 30,000 instead of 18,000?

“Our crude death rate overall is 0.98% so far. We will soon cross to 1%. Surely counting how many people were BID with positive RTK-PCR cannot be very difficult?

“The global crude death rate is presently 2.06% while the projected Covid death rate by the Stanford experts is near 0.15% for Covid deaths. Is Malaysia creating a record again?

“KJ’s comments has raised more questions? “

May be, Khairy can answer some of this medical practitioner’s queries.

Since Khairy was sworn in as Health Minister on 30th August, there had been 680 BID deaths. Is Khairy saying that this is a gross understatement and the actual situation is much higher – close to 1,000 BID?

We await clarification from Khairy on the matter.

The Covid-19 data yesterday was the best since Khairy took over as Health Minister giving hope that the upsurge of Covid-19 cases and deaths could be checked, although the evidence is not conclusive.

The number of daily new Covid-19 cases have fallen to 17,352 cases, although Malaysia had recorded daily new cases above 20,000 cases for 20 days since August 5, and yesterday’s figure was the lowest since August 10. We need more evidence that the upsurge of Covid-19 cases have ended as this is only the second day since August 10 that the daily new Covid-19 cases have been in the 17,000-range.

But what Khairy should note is that Indonesia has continued on a decline in daily new Covid-19 cases, recording 4,416 new cases yesterday – which is a quarter of Malaysia’s Covid-19 infections.

In the present wave, Indonesia reached a peak of daily 56,757 new cases on July 15, and had since receded to 4,416 cases, a level which it registered three-and-a-half months ago. Malaysia, on the other hand, had faced one the world’s longest Covid-19 waves for a whole year since the Sabah state general election last September.

May be Malaysia should send representatives to Indonesia to learn from them.

Although Malaysia’s Covid-189 death figures yesterday was less than that of India – Malaysia’s 272 deaths to India’s 290 deaths – it is still of matter of great concern considering the respective population of the two countries.

These are among the Covid-19 pandemic questions awaiting clarification and action from the new Health Minister.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Sept.7, 2021)

Khairy perlu betul-betul memberikan jawapan mengenai mengapa kadar kematian dan kematian di luar hospital masih tinggi dan bukannya mengelak

Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, perlu betul-betul memberikan jawapan mengenai mengapa kadar kematian dan kematian di luar hospital masih tinggi dan bukannya mengelak.

Di Kota Kinabalu semalam, Khairy mengatakan yang angka kematian Covid-19 yang tinggi tidaklah menunjukkan angka kematian yang sebenar dalam tempoh 24 jam seperti yang dilaporkan.

Beliau menjelaskan yang angka ini kadang-kalanya berkumpul untuk beberapa hari memandangkan pihak berkuasa memerlukan masa untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, terutamanya di tempat seperti Lembah Klang yang mencatatkan kadar vaksinasi yang tinggi.

Beliau berkata: “Jumlah kematian yang kita laporkan setiap hari itu bukanlah jumlah kematian dalam tempoh 24 jam yang lepas. Terdapat banyak ‘backlog’ kes kematian… sebab kita perlu dapatkan pengesahan sama ada si mati betul-betul mati akibat Covid-19 atau tidak.”

Khairy mengatakan yang kebanyakan ‘backlog’ ini adalah kerana jumlah kematian yang dibawa ke hospital (BID) yang perlu disiasat punca kematiannya sebelum mereka boleh dilaporkan dalam sebahagian daripada statistik Covid-19.

“Harapnya, kita akan dapat lihat penurunan kadar kematian dalam tempoh dua atau tiga minggu lagi apabila kita selesai mengemas kini data ‘backlog’ kematian.”

Khairy mengatakan, kebanyakan kes-kes BID ini terdiri daripada pesakit Covid-19 yang dikuarantin di rumah dan tidak dibawa ke hospital secepat mungkin apabila keadaan mereka semakin merosot.

Beliau mengatakan, kebanyakan pesakit Covid-19 diberitahu untuk mengasingkan diri mereka dan memerhati keadaan mereka di rumah dan hanya mendapatkan rawatan apabila keadaan mereka bertambah buruk.

“Tanpa penyeliaan yang betul, sudah terlalu lambat apabila mereka dihantar ke hospital.”

Saya bertanya kepada seorang pengamal perubatan, apa pandangan beliau mengenai respons Khairy, berikut adalah jawapan beliau:

“Ringkasnya, punca-punca kes BID ini besar kemungkinan disebabkan oleh komunikasi yang tidak baik di antara penjaga dan pesakit, dan rawatan yang tidak mencukupi kepada mereka yang menjalani isolasi bersendirian.

“Pesakit, mungkin seorang yang berusia 65 tahun, diberitahu untuk kuarantin dalam bilik dengan telefon bimbit dan panadol.

“Apa yang akan berlegaran dalam fikirannya? Dia tahu yang Covid ini boleh membunuh. Jadi dia akan bertanya, mengapa tidak ada rawatan untuknya? Walaupun kita tidak mahu memberi Ivermectin, sekurang-kurangnya pesakit tersebut patut diberikan satu kit rawatan yang mempunyai vitamin D, C dan antibiotik.

“Semua ini adalah ubat yang telah menunjukkan boleh membantu membina imuniti dan melawan jangkitan sampingan. Kit rawatan itu boleh membantu menjadi jaminan yang pesakit itu ada harapan untuk sembuh. Kita perhatikan status pesakit, tetapi pada masa yang sama kita perlu berikan mereka harapan, harapan meneruskan kehidupan.

“Mereka yang sihat, di bawah umur 60 dengan jangkitan kategori 1 dan 2 mempunyai 90% kemungkinan untuk pulih sekiranya mereka tidak mempunyai komorbiti yang lain. Komorbiditi yang penting adalah obesiti, darah tinggi, diabetes, strok, dan kanser. Individu yang mempunyai komorbiditi ini, walaupun dalam kategori 1 dan 2, perlu dimasukkan ke hospital kerana mereka mempunyai risiko kematian yang lebih tinggi.

“Backlog: Apabila si mati dibawa ke hospital, mereka lakukan ujian RTK-Ag dan sekiranya ujian ini didapati positif, si mati akan dikira sebagai mati akibat Covid-19. Perkara ini tidak sepatutnya mengambil masa lebih daripada 2 jam untuk mendapatkan hasil ujian. Adakah KJ cuba mengatakan yang setiap si mati yang dibawa ke hospital akan dibedah siasat? Bedah siasat mungkin mempunyai backlog, tetapi ujian RTK-Ag hanya akan memakan masa selama 2 jam. Tidak sepatutnya ada banyak backlog dan saya tidak percaya yang mereka buat bedah siasat untuk setiap kes BID.

“Sekiranya ada banyak backlog, adakah ianya disebabkan kegagalan menteri sebelumnya? Adakah KJ sedang cuba mengatakan yang menteri sebelum beliau tidak menjalankan kerja dengan baik dan KJ hanya sedang mengemas kini benda yang ditinggalkan? Tetapi KP Kesihatan masih orang yang sama. Tolong tanya KP mengapa ada backlog?

“Sekiranya terdapat backlog, berapa anggaran jumlahnya? Berapa banyak kematian yang terkumpul? Adakah perkara ini bermaksud kematian Covid kita sekarang hampir 30,000 dan bukannya 18,000?

“Kadar kematian kasar kita secara keseluruhan adalah 0.98% setakat ini. Tidak lama lagi kita akan mencapai 1%. Takkanlah susah sangat nak semak berapa ramai yang BID menggunakan ujian RTK-PCR?

“Kadar kematian kasar global pada masa ini adalah 2.06% sementara kadar kematian akibat Covid yang dianggarkan oleh pakar dari Stanford adalah kira-kira 0.15%. Adakah Malaysia akan mencipta rekod lagi?

“Komen KJ telah menimbulkan lebih banyak persoalan.”

Mungkin Khairy boleh menjawap sesetengah persoalan yang dibangkitkan oleh pengamal perubatan ini.

Sejak Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan pada 30 Ogos, terdapat 680 kes BID yang dicatatkan. Adakah Khairy mengatakan yang angka ini dikurang kira dan situasi sebenar adalah jauh lebih teruk — menghampiri 1,000 kes BID?

Kita tunggukan penjelasan daripada Khairy mengenai perkara ini.

Data Covid-19 semalam adalah yang terbaik sejak daripada hari Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan, memberikan harapan yang peningkatan kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 ini akhirnya dapat dikawal, walaupun perkara ini masih belum kukuh.

Jumlah kes harian semalam telah turun kepada 17,352 kes, walaupun negara kita mencatatkan lebih daripada 20,000 kes untuk 20 hari yang lepas sejak 5 Ogos, dan angka semalam adalah angka yang paling rendah sejak 10 Ogos. Kita perlukan lebih banyak bukti untuk mengatakan yang peningkatan kes Covid-19 sudah berakhir memandangkan semalam hanyalah hari kedua kes harian berada dalam julat 17,000 kes sejak 10 Ogos.

Tetapi apa yang Khairy perlu ingat adalah Indonesia telah berterusan berada dalam trend penurunan kes harian Covid-19, mencatatkan 4,416 kes semalam — satu per empat daripada angka kes di Malaysia.

Dalam gelombang penularan semasa, Indonesia telah mencapai kemuncak 56,757 kes baharu pada 15 Julai, dan kini telah turun kepada 4,416 kes, tahap yang sama yang disaksikan tiga bulan setengah yang lepas. Malaysia pula sedang berhadapan dengan gelombang penularan terpanjang di dunia sejak daripada Pilihan Raya Negeri Sabah pada bulan September tahun lepas.

Mungkin Malaysia perlu hantar perwakilan ke Indonesia dan belajar daripada mereka.

Walaupun kadar kematian Covid-19 semalam lebih rendah daripada India — 272 kematian di Malaysia berbanding dengan 290 di India — perkara ini masih membimbangkan memandangkan perbezaan jumlah penduduk di antara dua negara ini.

Inilah persoalan-persoalan mengenai wabak Covid-19 yang menunggu penjelasan daripada Menteri Kesihatan baharu kita.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 7 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Tuesday, 7 September 2021, 7:28 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Call on Khairy to direct the hospitalisation of Category 3 Covid-19 patients and those with comorbidities like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and cancers as well as the urgent construction of more field hospitals  by the armed services

(Versi BM)

The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin should heed the SOS calls of the Penang General Hospital surgeons who want clear plans for the growing Covid-19 caseload, as reported by Malay Mail online (MMO).

MMO reported that Covid-19 cases that are growing at over 1,000 daily meant wards in the Penang General Hospital (GH) are at almost full capacity, prompting surgeons to seek direct guidelines for dealing with the spillover.

Some facilities in the hospital have had to be converted into Covid-19 wards and intensive care units (ICU), including the general operating theatre (OT) complex that has between nine and 10 OTs.

The conversion of the general OT complex meant all non-Covid related surgeries have been pushed to a smaller OT, which was previously used for minor surgeries.

All major surgeries such as for serious injuries due to accidents, tumour removal for cancer patients, open heart surgeries or emergency Caesarean delivery are now being held in the small OT, causing a queue for its usage.

“It was not only physical limitations, we have resource limitations too as most of the staff have to help with the Covid-19 wards,” said one surgeon.

There were a total 304 Covid-19 cases involving the hospital staff between January and August this year, the bulk of which were in August.

In August alone, 208 GH staff tested positive for Covid-19.

According to the surgeon, the latest report showed that 17 OT staff who have worked in the small OT tested positive for Covid-19.

Three patients who were recovering after successful operations here have also contracted Covid-19.

The situation is now almost at a breaking point, with the surgical team constantly worried about their safety and that of their patients.

Khairy should resolve the problems faced by Penang Hospital as well as other public hospitals as a result of the of the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.

He should give priority to break the back of the problem of high Covid-19 death rates and high Brought-in-Dead Covid-19 deaths.

In the nine days as the new Health Minister on 30th August, five states have high Covid-19 death rates, namely Selangor (980 deaths), Johor (413), Sabah (327) and Penang (227) and Kedah (202).

In Khairy’s first seven days as the Heath Minister, there were 600 BID Covid-19 deaths as compared to the previous seven days where there were 413 cases.

The daily Covid-19 data are still grim and bleak as there are no signs of a downward trend either for daily Covid-19 new cases or Covid-19 deaths.

Yesterday’s 18,547 daily new Covid-19 cases and 311 Covid-19 deaths (with 93 BID Covid-19 deaths) are too high, ranking Malaysia among the world’s Top Ten countries in both categories since August.

Yesterday, we were the world’s No. 6 among nations in daily new Covid-19 cases and No. 8 in daily Covid-19 deaths.

The first thing Khairy must do is to ensure that Malaysia drops out of the world’s Top Ten countries in daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths.

The upward trend in BID Covid-19 deaths since Khairy’s swearing-in as the new Health Minister is a matter of concern. In Khairy’s first seven days as the Health Minister, there were 600 BID Covid-19 deaths as compared to the previous seven days where there were 413 cases.

In view of his statement in Kota Kinabalu on Monday, Malaysians are waiting for his clarification as to how many corpses are in the public hospitals, giving state-by-state figures, which are not recorded in the Ministry of Health data on Covid-19 because they are awaiting Covid-19 tests.

To help solve the problem of high Covid-19 deaths and high BID Covid-18 deaths, Khairy should direct the hospitalisation of Category 3 Covid-19 cases and those with comorbidities like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and cancers and the urgent construction of more field hospitals by the armed forces.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday 8th September 2021)

Seruan untuk Khairy mengarahkan hospitalisasi pesakit Covid-19 Kategori 3 dan juga mereka dengan komorbiditi seperti obesiti, darah tinggi, diabetes, strok dan kanser dan juga untuk membina lebih banyak hospital lapangan oleh pihak tentera

Menteri Kesihatan baharu, Khairy Jamaluddin, perlu mendengar rayuan doktor-doktor di Hospital Pulau Pinang yang mahukan rancangan yang jelas untuk berhadapan dengan jumlah kes Covid-19 yang semakin bertambah seperti yang dilaporkan oleh portal Malay Mail Online (MMO).

MMO melaporkan yang kes Covid-19 yang bertambah pada kadar lebih daripada 1,000 kes sehari bermakna wad-wad hospital di Hospital Pulau Pinang kini berada hampir di kapasiti penuh, memerlukan doktor untuk mendapatkan garis panduan untuk menguruskan lebihan pesakit ini.

Sesetengah fasiliti di hospital telah diubah menjadi wad Covid-19 dan unit rawatan rapi (ICU), termasuklah kompleks pembedahan am yang mengandungi kira-kira sembilan ke sepuluh unit bilik pembedahan.

Pengubahan bilik pembedahan ini bermakna semua pembedahan bukan berkaitan Covid-19 telah dipindahkan ke bilik pembedahan yang lebih kecil, yang sebelum ini digunakan untuk pembedahan berskala kecil.

Semua pembedahan utama melibatkan kecederaan serius akibat kemalangan, pembuangan tumor untuk pesakit kanser, pembedahan jantung, atau pembedahan caesarean kecemasan kini dijalankan di bilik bedah yang lebih kecil, membawa kepada kesesakan.

“Kami bukan sahaja berhadapan dengan kekurangan ruang fizikal, tetapi kami juga berhadapan dengan kekurangan sumber juga memandangkan ramai kakitangan terlibat dengan usaha membantu wad Covid-19” kata seorang doktor bedah.

Terdapat sejumlah 304 kes Covid-19 melibatkan kakitangan hospital di antara bulan Januari sehingga Ogos tahun ini, dengan kebanyakan kes di bulan Ogos.

Pada bulan Ogos sahaja, 208 orang staf dijangkiti Covid-19.

Menurut doktor bedah tersebut, laporan terkini menunjukkan yang 17 orang kakitangan bilik bedah telah disahkan positif Covid-19.

Tiga orang pesakit yang sedang pulih selepas pembedahan yang berjaya juga telah dijangkiti Covid-19.

Situasinya kini amat genting, dengan pasukan bedah sentiasa bimbang mengenai keselamatan mereka dan pesakit mereka.

Khairy perlu menyelesaikan masalah yang dihadapi oleh Hospital Pulau Pinang dan hospital-hospital lain akibat peningkatan jumlah kes Covid-19 ini.

Beliau perlu memberikan keutamaan untuk menyelesaikan masalah kematian dan kematian dibawa ke hospital akibat Covid-19 yang tinggi.

Dalam sembilan hari pertama sebagai Menteri Kesihatan baharu pada 30 Ogos, lima negeri mencatatkan angka kematian akibat Covid-19 yang tinggi, iaitu Selangor (980 kematian), Johor (413), Sabah (327) dan Pulau Pinang (227) dan Kedah (202).

Dalam tujuh hari pertama Khairy sebagai Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat 600 kematian BID akibat Covid-19 berbanding 413 kes tujuh hari sebelumnya.

Data Covid-19 harian masih suram kerana tidak ada tanda-tanda beralih ke arah penurunan jumlah kes jangkitan harian atau kes kematian harian Covid-19.

18,547 kes baharu dan 311 kematian akibat Covid-19 (dengan 93 kematian BID Covid-19) yang dicatatkan semalam masih terlalu tinggi, menjadikan Malaysia antara Sepuluh negara teratas di dunia dalam kedua-dua kategori sejak Ogos.

Semalam kita berada di tempat ke-6 dan ke-8 dengan jumlah kes baharu dan kematian akibat Covid-19 tertinggi di dunia.

Perkara pertama yang perlu dilakukan oleh Khairy adalah untuk memastikan Malaysia tidak lagi tergolong dalam 10 negara teratas dengan jumlah kes baharu dan kematian harian ini.

Trend peningkatan kematian BID Covid-19 sejak Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan ini agak merunsingkan. Dalam tujuh hari pertama Khairy sebagai Menteri Kesihatan, terdapat 600 kematian BID Covid-19 berbanding tujuh hari sebelumnya di mana terdapat 413 kes.

Dengan kenyataan beliau di Kota Kinabalu di pada hari Isnin, rakyat Malaysia sedang menantikan penjelasan beliau mengenai berapa banyakkah jenazah, mengikut negeri, yang masih belum didaftarkan oleh Kementerian Kesihatan kerana menunggu giliran untuk menjalani ujian saringan Covid-19.

Untuk membantu menyelesaikan masalah kematian dan kematian BID akibat Covid-19 yang tinggi, Khairy perlu mengarahkan hospitalisasi pesakit Covid-19 Kategori 3 dan juga mereka dengan komorbiditi seperti obesiti, darah tinggi, diabetes, strok dan kanser dan juga untuk membina lebih banyak hospital lapangan oleh pihak tentera.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 8 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 9:59 am and is filed under
COVID-19
,
Health
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Possibility of confidence-supply-reform agreement between the government and opposition suffered a grievous blow and is now “up in the air” as a result of the omission of the vote of confidence motion  in the parliamentary agenda next week

(Versi BM)

The possibility of reaching a confidence-supply-reform agreement between the government and the opposition suffered a grievous blow and is now “up in the air” as a result of the omission of the vote of confidence motion in the parliamentary agenda next week.

If the Yang di Pertuan Agong had changed his mind and consented not to have a confidence motion in Parliament as claimed by the new Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of law and Parliament, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, then why was it not stated right from the very beginning instead of the most bizarre statement by the Attorney-General Idris Harun last Saturday arguing the most ridiculous point that a vote of confidence would undermine the Yang di Pertuan Agong’s powers to appoint a Prime Minster in accordance with the Malaysian Constitution?

The appointment of a Prime Minister by the Yang di Pertuan Agong and a motion of confidence in Parliament are two separate and distinct issues although they are inter-related.

It is no wonder that no jurist or lawyer has come out in support of Idris’ contention while many lawyers and NGOs have dissented from the Attorney-General.

Although PAS has taken a stand that there is no need for a vote of confidence in Parliament, this is PAS’ political stand rather than a constitutional position.

The correct constitutional position is summed up by the former Court of Appeal Judge, Hamid Sultan Abu Backer, who said that the Yang di Pertuan Agong could rely on the Statutory Declarations of the MPs and interview with them to exercise his Constitutional powers under Article 40(2)(a) to appoint the Prime Minister while Article 43(3) which says that the Prime Minister must tender his resignation if he does not have majority support is a matter for Parliament to determine.

There is only one reason for Ismail Sabri not wanting to have a motion of confidence in Parliament next Tuesday to establish his legitimacy as originally decreed by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on August 17 in his meeting with political party leaders and reiterated in an Istana Negara statement on August 18 – that Ismail

Sabri feared he would not be able to secure the support of 114 Members of Parliament in the vote of confidence in Parliament although they had expressed support of Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister in their statutory declarations and confirmed their support of Ismail as the new Prime Minister in their subsequent interview with the Yang di Pertuan Agong on 20th August, 2021.

Ismail can avoid a vote of confidence motion but can he avoid votes in Parliament amounting to votes on his legitimacy as Prime Minister – whether on 23rd Sept on the motion of thanks for the Royal Address, on 7th October on the 12th Malaysia Plan, the 2022 Budget or the various Bills?

Can we ensure an end to the political maelstrom and uncertainty in Parliament and a new-found unity of purpose to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic to reset the country with parliamentary and institutional reforms for economic and national recovery for the next 12-18 months until the 15th General Election?

Junaidi said that the confidence-supply-reform agreement first offered by the former Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, is still on the table.

There is no doubt that the possibility of an unprecedented political breakthrough in reaching a confidence-supply-reform accord between the government and opposition so that all Malaysians can single-mindedly focus on winning the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic had suffered a grievous blow and it is to be seen whether such an agreement could be salvaged before Parliament reconvenes next Monday.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021)

Kemungkinan untuk perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi di antara pihak kerajaan dan pembangkang kini tergugat dan berhadapan dengan nasib yang tidak menentu akibat ketiadaan usul undi percaya dalam aturan urusan mesyuarat sidang Parlimen minggu hadapan

Kemungkinan untuk mencapai perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi di antara pihak kerajaan dan pembangkang kini tergugat dan berhadapan dengan nasib yang tidak menentu akibat ketiadaan usul undi percaya dalam aturan urusan mesyuarat sidang Parlimen minggu hadapan.

Sekiranya Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong telah berubah fikiran dan bersetuju untuk tidak perlu adanya undi percaya di Parlimen seperti yang didakwa oleh Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri yang bertanggungjawab ke atas hal ehwal Parlimen dan Undang-undang, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, mengapakah perkara ini tidak dinyatakan dari awal lagi? Sebaliknya apa yang kita dapat adalah kenyataan luar biasa daripada Peguam Negara, Idris Harun, Sabtu lepas dengan hujah yang tidak masuk akal yang cuba mengatakan undi percaya ini merendah-rendahkan kuasa Yang di Pertuan Agong untuk melantik Perdana Menteri mengikut peruntukan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Pelantikan Perdana Menteri oleh Yang di Pertuan Agong dan hal undi percaya di Parlimen adalah dua perkara yang berbeza sama sekali walaupun berkaitan antara satu sama lain.

Maka tidak peliklah tidak ada seorang pun pakar undang-undang atau peguam yang telah menyokong hujah Idris ini, sebaliknya, ramai peguam dan badan bukan kerajaan yang membantah pendapat Peguam Negara ini.

Walaupun PAS telah mengambil kedudukan berpendapat bahawa tidak ada keperluan untuk undi percaya di Parlimen, ini adalah pendirian politik PAS, bukannya peruntukan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

Kedudukan sebenar isu ini dirumuskan secara baik oleh mantan Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan, Hamid Sultan Abd Backer, yang mengatakan Yang di Pertuan Agong boleh bergantung kepada akuan bersumpah dan temu ramah bersama Ahli-ahli Parlimen dalam melaksanakan tanggungjawab Baginda mengikut peruntukan Perkara 40(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan untuk melantik seorang Perdana Menteri, manakala Perkara 43(3) Perlembagaan yang memperuntukkan bahawa Perdana Menteri perlulah meletakkan jawatannya sekiranya beliau tidak mempunyai sokongan majoriti adalah perkara yang perlu ditentukan oleh Parlimen.

Hanya ada satu sebab mengapa Ismail Sabri tidak mahu mengadakan undi percaya di Parlimen pada hari Selasa depan untuk menentukan keabsahannya seperti yang dititahkan oleh Baginda Yang di Pertuan Agong pada 17 Ogos semasa pertemuan dengan pemimpin-pemimpin parti politik yang kemudiannya ditegaskan lagi dalam kenyataan media Istana Negara pada 18 Ogos — Ismail bimbang beliau tidak mendapat sokongan 114 Ahli-ahli Parlimen dalam sidang Parlimen akan datang walaupun mereka sebelum ini telah menyatakan sokongan mereka kepada Ismail Sabri dalam akuan bersumpah mereka dan mengesahkan sokongan mereka untuk Ismail menjadi Perdana Menteri baharu selepas sesi temu ramah mereka bersama Yang di Pertuan Agong pada 20 Ogos 2021.

Ismail boleh mengelakkan undi percaya, namun bolehkah beliau mengelakkan undian di Parlimen yang akan menjadi cerminan keabsahan beliau sebagai Perdana Menteri — sama ada pada 23 September semasa usul Menjunjung Kasih Titah Diraja, atau 7 Oktober semasa pembentangan Rancangan Malaysia ke-12, Belanjawan 2022, atau apa-apa Rang Undang-undang lain?

Bolehkah kita akhiri sebarang ribut dan ketidaktentuan politik di Parlimen dan temukan satu perpaduan baharu dengan tujuan untuk memastikan kita menang perang melawan wabak Covid-19 untuk menetapkan semula negara kita di landasan yang betul dengan reformasi institusi dan parlimen untuk memastikan terdapat pemulihan ekonomi dan negara dalam 12 ke 18 bulan yang akan sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15?

Junaidi mengatakan yang tawaran perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi yang pertama kali ditawarkan oleh mantan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin, masih terbuka untuk dibincangkan.

Tidak ada sebarang ragu-ragu yang kemungkinan mencipta sejarah politik dengan perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi di antara pihak kerajaan dan pembangkang supaya semua orang dapat menumpukan usaha kepada memenangi perang melawan Covid-19 kini tergugat dan kita hanya mampu menunggu dan lihat sama ada perjanjian ini masih dapat diselamatkan sebelum Parlimen bersidang Isnin depan.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Rabu, 8 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2021, 7:20 am and is filed under
Ismail Sabri
,
nation building
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Ismail Sabri should meet with MCCBCHST to clear the air on plans to enact a new law targeting non-Muslims

The Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri should meet with the Malaysian Consultative Council on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taosim (MCCBCHST) to clear the air on plans to enact a new law targeting non-Muslims.

The MCCBCHST has  said that the  statements made by Deputy Islamic Affairs Minister Ahmad Marzuk Shaary on the new law had caused “great anxiety” for non-Muslims and urged the Prime Minister to clear the air on the issue.

Although the  de facto Law Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has  said the bills mentioned by Marzuk have yet to be brought to the cabinet as the states had to be consulted first, Ismail Sabr’s meeting i with the MCCBCHST would be an  useful occasion  to reassure Malaysians that the government is committed to both the objectives and the principles of Rukun Negara to strengthen unity in a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural nation.

This is important as there have been doubts that about the commitment of  the new government to the objectives of Rukun Negara to ensure strong unity and harmony among Malaysians for the sake of the success  and stability of the country, viz: to

– Achieve and foster  better unity amongst the society;

– Preserve a democratic way of life;

– Create a just society where the prosperity of the country can be enjoyed together in a fair and equitable manner;

– Ensure a liberal approach towards the rich and varied cultural traditions;

– Build  a progressive society that will make use of science and modern technology.

Although we have just celebrated our 64th National Day and will be celebrating our 58th Malaysia Day in a week’s time, there are increasing signs that the five principles of Rukun Negara, namely Belief in God, Loyalty to King and Country, Supremacy of the Constitution, Rule of Law and Courtesy and Morality are not getting the support of the government as in the seventies and eighties.

Ismail Sabri’s meeting with the MCCBCHST will be a good occasion for the new Prime Minister to renew and reaffirm support for the objectives and principles of the Rukun Negara.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 9th September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Thursday, 9 September 2021, 2:40 pm and is filed under
Religion
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Malaysia set new records in daily new Covid-19 cases and Covid-19 deaths and Khairy disappoints Malaysians as he failed to keep to his word to announce more details of high Covid-19 deaths and high BID Covid-19 deaths

(Versi BM)

Yesterday, Malaysia set two new records breaking the 1.9 million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases with 1,900,467 cases and breaking the 19,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths with a total of 19,163 deaths.

My worst fears will come true – when we celebrate our 58th Malaysia Day in a week’s time on Sept. 16, we would have passed the two million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as well as passed the 20,000-mark for total Covid-19 deaths.

We will overtake Iraq tomorrow to be ranked No.22 in the world among nations for the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and overtake Netherlands to be ranked No. 21 by Sunday on Sept. 12 before Parliament reconvenes on Sept. 13.

At the present rate of infection and death, we will have passed the two million mark for cumulative total of Covid-19 cases when Parliament reconvenes on Sept. 13 and have passed the 21,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths when we celebrate our 58th National Day on Sept. 16, 2021.

Because of the 14-day incubation period for Covid-19 cases, there are no signs that since the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, was sworn in on August 30, that Malaysia is on a downward decline from probably the world’s longest Covid-19 wave since last September.

We are still the world’s top sixth country for both daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths (despite official suggestion that Covid-19 death figures in Malaysia are an underestimate).

I am most disappointed that Khairy has not honoured what he promised in Kota Kinabalu on Monday, i.e. to make further announcements and explanations on the high number of Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths when he gets the new data yesterday.

Khairy said in Kota Kinabalu on Monday that the high number of Covid-19 deaths reported daily did not reflect the actual number of fresh deaths that occur within 24 hours, as the numbers were sometimes piled up over several days as the authorities need time to confirm the cause of death, especially in places like the Klang Valley.

When Khairy said that the daily death reports were not necessarily from the last 24 hours, as there was “a long backlog because we have to confirm the cause of death is from Covid-19 and not something else”, he was clearly saying that the BID Covid-19 death figures should be very much higher.

I am very disappointed that Khairy had not announced the new data which he had received as he had promised to be transparent and to provide more detailed Covid-19 data to the public.

Yesterday, there were 102 BID Covid-19 deaths out of the total of 361 daily Covid-19 deaths, which is the third time in the last 10 days when BID Covid-19 deaths were in triple-digit figures.

Before August 30, there were two days when BID Covid-19 deaths were in triple-digit numbers – 101 BID Covid-19 death cases on August 15 and 100 BID cases on August 26.

Malaysians are waiting for results as Khairy had promised to give priority to resolve the problem of high BID Covid-19 deaths.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 9th September 2021)

Malaysia mencatatkan rekod baharu kes dan kematian akibat Covid-19 dan Khairy mengecewakan rakyat Malaysia apabila beliau gagal memenuhi janjinya untuk mengumumkan maklumat lanjut mengenai kadar kematian dan BID yang tinggi

Semalam, negara kita mencatatkan dua lagi rekod baharu, mencapai 1.9 juta kes terkumpul Covid-19 dengan 1,900,467 kes dan melepasi paras 19,000 kematian akibat Covid-19 dengan sejumlah 19,613 kematian.

Kebimbangan saya kelihatannya akan menjadi kenyataan, di mana ketika menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-58 dalam masa seminggu lagi pada 16 September, kita akan sudah melepasi paras dua juta kes terkumpul dan juga 20,000 ribu kematian akibat Covid-19.

Kita akan melepasi kedudukan Iraq di tempat ke-22 dengan jumlah kes terkumpul tertinggi di dunia, sebelum mengatasi kedudukan Belanda di tempat ke-21 pada hari Ahad, 12 September, sehari sebelum Parlimen bersidang semula pada hari Isnin, 13 September.

Pada kadar semasa jangkitan dan kematian akibat Covid-19, kita akan melepasi paras 2 juta kes terkumpul apabila Parlimen bersidang pada 13 September dan melepasi paras 21,000 kematian semasa Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16 September 2021.

Kerana ada tempoh inkubasi selama 14 hari untuk kes Covid-19, belum ada petanda sejak Khairy mengangkat sumpah sebagai Menteri Kesihatan yang baharu pada 30 Ogos yang negara kita sedang berada dalam arah penunjukkan penurunan kes Covid-19 dalam gelombang penularan terlama di dunia yang bermula pada bulan September tahun lepas ini.

Kita masih lagi negara keenam dengan kadar jangkitan baharu tertinggi dah kematian baharu tertinggi (walaupun ada pendapat yang mengatakan yang kadar kematian di Malaysia terkurang kira).

Saya amat kecewa kerana Khairy tidak memenuhi janjinya di Kota Kinabalu pada hari Isnin, iaitu untuk membuat pengumuman dan penjelasan mengenai angka kematian di bawa ke hospital (BID) yang tinggi apabila beliau mendapatkan data baharu semalam.

Khairy mengatakan di Kota Kinabalu pada hari Isnin yang angka tinggi kematian Covid-19 yang dilaporkan ini tidaklah mencerminkan angka kematian yang sebenarnya dalam tempoh 24 jam terakhir kerana angka ini kadang-kalanya terkumpul untuk beberapa hari kerana pihak berkuasa memerlukan masa untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, terutamanya di tempat seperti di Lembah Klang.

Semasa Khairy mengatakan yang angka kematian kematian ini tidak semestinya daripada 24 jam yang lepas kerana terdapat backlog yang panjang untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, beliau jelas sekali mengatakan yang kadar kematian BID akibat Covid-19 ini sebenarnya jauh lebih tinggi.

Saya amat kecewa kerana Khairy tidak mengumumkan data baharu yang diterimanya kerana beliau telah berjanji untuk bersifat lebih telus dan memberikan maklumat berkenaan Covid-19 yang lebih terperinci kepada orang awam.

Semalam, terdapat 102 kematian yang dibawa ke hospital daripada sejumlah 361 kematian akibat Covid-19, yang merupakan hari ketiga dalam 10 hari yang lepas di mana kes BID melepasi paras tiga angka.

Sebelum 30 Ogos, hanya dua hari mencatatkan kadar BID melepasi julat tiga angka — 101 dan 100 kematian BID pada 15 dan 26 Ogos.

Rakyat Malaysia masih menunggu hasil daripada janji Khairy untuk menyelesaikan masalah kadar kematian di bawa ke hospital yang tinggi ini.

(Kenyataan media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 9 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Thursday, 9 September 2021, 7:13 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Health Ministry’s new Covid-19 website most welcome but Khairy has still to honour his undertaking to give more details about the high Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths

(Versi BM)

The Heath Ministry’s new Covid-19 website is most welcome but the Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin had still to honour his undertaking in Kota Kinabalu on Monday to give more details about the high Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths.

Khairy had said in Kota Kinabalu on Monday that the high number of Covid-19 deaths reported daily did not reflect the actual number of fresh deaths that occur within 24 hours, as the numbers were sometimes piled up over several days as the authorities need time to confirm the cause of death, especially in places like the Klang Valley.

When Khairy said that the daily death reports were not necessarily from the last 24 hours, as there was “a long backlog because we have to confirm the cause of death is from Covid-19 and not something else”, he was clearly saying that the BID Covid-19 death figures should be very much higher.

He promised to make further announcements and explanations on the high number of Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday after he got new data but Khairy has still to keep to his undertaking.

The high BID Covid-19 deaths were basically an August phenomenon, as in July there were some 500 BID Covid-19 deaths which tripled in August to over 1,600 cases.

In the first ten days of Khairy as the new Heath Minister, the Health Ministry reported 876 BID Covid-19 deaths, which is more than thrice the total number of

BID Covid-19 deaths in the first 10 days of August.

Now, Khairy says that these BID Covid-19 figures are a serious under-estimate and this is the reason why Malaysians are expecting Khairy to give the full and true picture and the reason why I have asked how many corpses are in the hospitals, giving state-by-state figures, which are not recorded in the Ministry of Health data on Covid-19 because they are awaiting Covid-19 tests.

From the new website, it would appear that there is a total of 3,417 BID Covid-19 deaths out the cumulative total of 19,486 deaths, representing 17.5% which is too high a figure especially as it has escalated in recent weeks. For instance, on Sept. 8, it was over 30% as there were 102 BID Covid-19 deaths out of a daily total of 361 Covid-19 deaths – which according to Khairy, is a serious underestimate.

Khairy must take urgent measures to cut down the high BID Covid-19 figures, and I welcome his decision that all Category Three Covid-19 patients be sent to quarantine centres along with the high-risk in Category Two cases.

More should be done to slash the high BID Covid-19 death rates and Khairy should welcome ideas and suggestions from both the public and private health sectors.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, September 10, 2021)

Laman web baharu yang menyediakan maklumat terkini berkaitan Covid-19 amat dialu-alukan, tetapi, Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin masih belum mengotakan janjinya untuk memberikan lebih banyak perincian berhubung angka kes BID akibat Covid-19 yang begitu tinggi

Laman web baharu yang menyediakan maklumat terkini berkaitan Covid-19 oleh Kementerian Kesihatan amat dialu-alukan, tetapi, Menteri Kesihatan, Khairy Jamaluddin masih belum mengotakan janjinya di Kota Kinabalu pada Isnin lalu untuk memberikan lebih banyak perincian berhubung angka kematian yang dibawa ke hospital (BID) akibat Covid-19 yang begitu tinggi.

Semasa Khairy berkata yang angka kematian ini tidak semestinya daripada 24 jam yang lepas kerana terdapat backlog yang panjang untuk mengesahkan punca kematian, beliau jelas sekali mengatakan yang kadar kematian BID akibat Covid-19 ini sebenarnya jauh lebih tinggi.

Beliau berjanji untuk membuat pengumuman dan penjelasan lanjut mengenai angka BID yang tinggi pada Rabu selepas beliau mendapatkan data baharu namun sehingga kini Khairy masih belum menunaikan janjinya itu.

Peningkatan jumlah kes BID yang begitu tinggi dilihat banyak berlaku dalam bulan Ogos, kerana pada Julai terdapat kira-kira 500 kes BID yang mana meningkat tiga kali ganda kepada lebih 1,600 kes pada bulan Ogos.

Dalam tempoh sepuluh hari sejak Khairy menjadi Menteri Kesihatan yang baharu, Menteri Kesihatan melaporkan terdapat 876 kes BID, yang mana tiga kali ganda jumlah BID yang dilaporkan sepanjang 10 hari pertama bulan Ogos.

Kini, Khairy berkata bahawa angka kes BID yang dilaporkan sebenarnya dianggarkan kurang daripada angka sebenar dan inilah sebabnya mengapa rakyat Malaysia mengharapkan Khairy untuk memberikan gambaran sebenar dan sepenuhnya berhubung isu ini dan juga menjadi sebab mengapa saya mendesak agar beliau mengumumkan berapa banyak jumlah mayat yang berada di hospital, untuk setiap negeri, yang mana tidak direkodkan dalam data Covid-19 Kementerian Kesihatan kerana mereka masih menantikan hasil keputusan saringan Covid-19.

Menurut laman web baharu berkenaan, terdapat 3,419 daripada 19,486 kes kematian keseluruhan yang dicatatkan adalah kes BID, atau bersamaan 17.5%, yang mana merupakan angka yang begitu tinggi. Sebagai contoh, 30% daripada 361 kes kematian yang dicatatkan pada 8 September adalah kes BID — yang menurut Khairy jauh lebih rendah daripada anggaran.

Khairy harus mengambil langkah-langkah segera bagi mengurangkan angka kes BID, dan saya menyambut baik keputusan beliau untuk menghantar semua pesakit Covid-19 kategori tiga dan kategori dua yang berisiko tinggi ke pusat kuarantin.

Banyak yang perlu dilakukan oleh Khairy untuk menurunkan angka kes BID yang tinggi dan beliau harus mendengar pandangan dan idea daripada sektor kesihatan awam dan swasta berhubung perkara itu.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Jumaat, 10 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Friday, 10 September 2021, 9:13 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Is a historic breakthrough of a confidence-supply-reform agreement between the government and opposition in Parliament  for the nation to single-mindedly focus on winning the war against  the Covid-19 pandemic until the next general election an impossible goal?

(Versi BM)

Former Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin said that 2022 is the year of recovery for Malaysia.

This is like many of his statements and pronouncements when he was the eighth Prime Minister which had remained empty statements which had marked his disastrous premiership.

Take his 2021 New Year Message on Dec. 31, 2020 on five priorities for an integrated Covid recovery.

His first priority to “improve public health through the procurement of Covid-19 vaccines with the launch of a nationwide vaccination programme” had been completely pulverised by the Covid19 data in the past nine months.

Malaysia started the new year of 2021 with 2,064 Covid-19 cases and 474 Covid-19 deaths but we have now 1,919,774 Covid-19 cases and 19,486 Covid-19 deaths (a phenomenal increase of 930 times the number of cases and over 41 times the number of deaths).

We had low four-digit daily new Covid-19 cases and single-digit daily Covid-19 deaths but now we have five-digit daily new Covid-19 cases and three-digit daily Covid-19 deaths.

Tomorrow, we will overtake Iraq to be ranked No. 22 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and overtake Netherlands on Sunday to be ranked No. 21 in the world – when we were ranked No. 55 at the beginning of the year, an ignominious jump over 34 countries – and the dubious distinction of having probably the longest Covid-19 wave in the world since September last year.

Yesterday, we were ranked world’s Top No. 7th country in both daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths.

Muhyiddin’s second priority to “strengthen the people’s economy and drive the country’s economic growth post Covid-19 through the implementation of the 2021 Budget and the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP)” has been defeated by the six-month unconstitutional suspension of Parliament during the Emergency and the 12th Malaysia Plan has not yet been presented to Parliament.

Muhyiddin’s third priority to “ensure political stability with strong emphasis on good governance as a foundation for sustainable economic recovery” was a joke with the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2020 of Transparency International(TI) undoing the best in 25 years in the previous TI CPI 2019, falling from 53 points to 51 points in score and a six- point fall in ranking from No. 51 to 57 – with worse to come in TI CPI 2021 in January 2022.

Muhyiddin’s fourth priority to “uphold the country’s sovereignty and strengthen Malaysia’s position on the world stage” was punctured by the Bloomberg August Covid Resilience Index when we fell to the rock bottom of 53 economies of more than US$200 billion from the best ranking of 16th in January 2021.

Muhyiddin’s fifth priority to “strengthen ties between races and religions in shaping a united community against any threat” made no sense whatsoever as it was completely antithetical to the very rational of the Sheraton Move conspiracy which was the basis of the Muhyiddin government.

I had said that the possibility of a historic confidence-supply-reform agreement between the government and opposition had suffered a grievous blow and is now “up in the air” as a result of the omission of the vote of confidence motion in Ismail Sabri as Prime Minister in the parliamentary agenda next week.

The stakes have been further raised against such a historic agreement with the unilateral announcement of Muhyiddin as Chairman of the National Recovery Council as the confidence-supply-reform agreement presupposed a more consultative approach in the worsening war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Now there is talk that a former Prime Minister responsible for turning Malaysia into a kleptocracy would be appointed with ministerial rank as economic adviser to the Prime Minister.

It would appear that the possibility of a historic breakthrough in reaching a confidence-supply-reform accord between the government and opposition in Parliament so that all Malaysians can single-mindedly focus on winning the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic until the 15th General Election would not be an achievable goal.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021)

Adakah kejayaan bersejarah perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi antara kerajaan dan pembangkang di Parlimen untuk membolehkan negara memberikan tumpuan penuh kepada usaha melawan wabak Covid-19 sehingga pilihan raya umum akan datang merupakan suatu matlamat yang mustahil untuk dicapai?

Mantan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin berkata bahawa tahun 2022 adalah tahun pemulihan bagi Malaysia.

Ini bukan kali pertama beliau membuat kenyataan dan pengumuman sebegitu. Beliau pernah mengeluarkan kenyataan dengan nada serupa sewaktu menjadi Perdana Menteri kelapan yang akhirnya terbukti hanya cakap kosong.

Sebagai contoh, semasa Muhyiddin menyampaikan ucapan Tahun Baharu 2021 pada 31 Disember 2020, beliau antara lain menyentuh mengenai lima keutamaan strategi bersepadu pemulihan negara pasca Covid.

Keutamaan pertama adalah untuk “mempertingkatkan tahap kesihatan awam melalui perolehan bekalan vaksin COVID-19 dan melancarkan program vaksinasi di seluruh negara” yang mana telah gagal mencapai matlamatnya berdasarkan data-data Covid-19 yang direkodkan sejak sembilan bulan yang lalu.

Malaysia memulakan tahun baru 2021 dengan 2,064 kes Covid-19 dan 474 kematian akibat Covid-19, namun, kita kini mempunyai 1,919,774 kes terkumpul Covid-19 dan 19,486 kematian terkumpul akibat Covid-19 (peningkatan yang luar biasa — 930 kali ganda untuk jumlah kes jangkitan dan lebih 41 kali ganda untuk jumlah kematian).

Kita sebelum ini mencatatkan empat digit kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan satu digit kematian harian akibat Covid-19, tetapi sekarang kita merekodkan lima digit kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan tiga digit kes kematian harian akibat Covid-19.

Esok, kita akan mengatasi Iraq untuk berada di kedudukan ke-22 antara negara-negara dengan jumlah kumulatif kes Covid-19 tertinggi, dan mengatasi Belanda pada hari Ahad untuk berada di kedudukan ke-21 di dunia — sedangkan kita pernah berada di kedudukan ke-55 pada awal tahun, prestasi yang lemah dan amat memalukan — dan mungkin menjadi antara negara yang mengalami gelombang Covid-19 paling lama di dunia sejak September tahun lalu.

Semalam, kita berada di kedudukan ke-7 teratas dalam kategori kes harian baharu Covid-19 dan kes kematian harian.

Keutamaan kedua Muhyiddin untuk “memperkukuh ekonomi prihatin rakyat dan memacu pertumbuhan ekonomi negara pasca COVID-19 melalui pelaksanaan Belanjawan 2021 dan Rancangan Malaysia Ke-12 (RMK-12)” telah digagalkan oleh tindakan tidak berperlembagaan pentadbiran beliau yang menggantung Parlimen selama enam bulan semasa darurat berkuatkuasa dan sehingga kini RMK-12 masih belum dibentangkan di Parlimen.

Keutamaan ketiga Muhyiddin untuk “memastikan kestabilan politik dan kerajaan termasuk tadbir urus yang baik sebagai asas kepada pemulihan ekonomi yang mampan” juga gagal selepas pencapaian terbaik negara dalam tempoh 25 tahun dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah Transparency International (TI) musnah pada tahun 2020 selepas mata yang diperoleh negara merudum dari 53 mata kepada 51 dan jatuh dari tangga ke-51 ke tangga ke-57 — kita mungkin bakal mengulang prestasi terburuk ini dalam CPI TI 2021 pada Januari 2022.

Keutamaan keempat yang digariskan Muhyiddin untuk “menjamin kedaulatan negara terpelihara dan kedudukan Malaysia di persada antarabangsa diperhebat” juga tidak kesampaian selepas Indeks Ketahan Covid yang dikeluarkan Bloomberg untuk bulan Ogos meletakkan Malaysia di kedudukan tercorot antara negara-negara dengan nilai ekonomi melebihi AS$200 bilion berbanding kedudukan ke-16 — yang merupakan kedudukan terbaik negara setakat ini — pada Januari 2021.

Keutamaan kelima Muhyiddin untuk “memperkukuh hubungan antara kaum dan agama dalam membentuk masyarakat yang bersatu padu menentang sebarang ancaman” dilihat tidak masuk akal kerana kerajaan Muhyiddin ketika itu dibentuk menerusi konspirasi Langkah Sheraton yang tidak beretika.

Saya telah berkata sebelum ini kemungkinan untuk melihat peristiwa bersejarah di mana pihak kerajaan dan pembangkang untuk melaksanakan perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi bakal hancur lebur selepas usul undi percaya terhadap Perdana Menteri, Ismail Sabri tidak diletakkan dalam agenda aturan urusan mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat minggu depan.

Perjanjian bersejarah itu turut berdepan kegagalan selepas kerajaan membuat keputusan sepihak dalam melantik Muhyiddin sebagai Pengerusi Majlis Pemulihan Negara kerana perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi itu sepatutnya mengambil semangat dan pendekatan rundingan dalam usaha untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19.

Kini, terdapat cakap-cakap yang mengatakan seorang mantan Perdana Menteri yang bertanggungjawab mengubah Malaysia kepada kleptokrasi akan dilantik sebagai penasihat ekonomi kepada Perdana Menteri bertaraf menteri.

Nampaknya kemungkinan adanya kejayaan bersejarah dalam membentuk perjanjian kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi antara kerajaan dan pembangkang di Parlimen sehingga semua rakyat Malaysia dapat memberikan tumpuan tunggal untuk memenangi perang melawan Covid-19 hingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 tidak akan dapat dicapai.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 10 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Friday, 10 September 2021, 2:43 pm and is filed under
COVID-19
,
Muhyiddin Yassin
,
nation building
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


As an  urgent anti-Covid-19 Pandemic measure, Parliament should  decriminalise suicide in September/October meeting and Ismail Sabri should announce that no one will be prosecuted for attempted suicide until law is amended

As an urgent anti-Covid-19 pandemic measure, Parliament should decriminalise suicide in the September/October meeting starting on Monday and the Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri should announce that no one will be prosecuted for attempted suicide until the law is amended.

The 21-month long Covid-19 pandemic has caused an unusual rise in suicides – with the police recording 638 suicides in the first seven months of 2021, or three suicides a day, as compared to 631 in 2020 and 699 in 2019.

This is the time to decriminalise attempt suicide, which is a crime under the present law.

The Covid-19 Pandemic has further highlighted the fact that a suicide attempt is not an issue of crime, but a social and health problem with more people facing the symptoms of increased depression and stress, such as insomnia, anxiety, irritability and low mood, which may affect their daily functioning.

While the number of people with mental health issues is rising, Malaysia also faces the problem of shortage of psychiatrists.

Malaysia’s psychiatrist-to-patient ratio was only a tenth of the one per 10,000 recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

There are a total of 400 psychiatrists in Malaysia, when there should be 3,100.

Decriminalising suicide attempts should be one of the priority  agendas of the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin  and I urge him, together with the new de facto Law Minister, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaffar to play a leading role to   put the  decriminalisation of  suicide on the statute books.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 11th September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Saturday, 11 September 2021, 12:05 pm and is filed under
Health
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Premature for Khairy to talk about Covid-19 becoming  endemic in October when Covid-19 death rates are still high

It is premature for the new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, to talk about Covid-19 becoming endemic in Malaysia  at the end of  October when Covid-19 death rates are still high despite a high vaccination rate.

While Malaysia should move away from the “Zero Covid” policy to ”Live with Covid” policy, we must strike a proper balancing act  to ensure that while there is not a total end to Covid-19, there is also a   resumption of normal, pre-pandemic economic and social  life.

Many pandemics do end and become endemic, morphing into something that is no longer an emergency, but rather an annoyance, an ugly and even painful fact of life that people simply learn to cope with, like the flu or common cold –  but the question is when and how we get to that point.

Vaccines have changed the balance with the ability to contain Covid-19’s worst outcomes – severe illness,  hospitalization and death – but vaccines alone cannot drive hospitalisations and deaths to zero with the rise of Delta and other variants. Vaccines provide great but not perfect protection.

I am reminded of what Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said recently that US was still “in pandemic mode”, far from the 10,000 cases a day that would begin to feel more “comfortable”.

Fauci said: “Right now,  we’re still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day.”

For Malaysia, we cannot claim that the pandemic has ended unless we are having 1,000 cases or less a day.

How can we claim that the Covid-19 pandemic has ended when  we are in the world’s Top Ten countries for daily new Covid-19 cases and daily Covid-19 deaths –yesterday, we were the world’s top No. 4th country in daily new Covid-19 cases and world’s Top No. 5th country for daily Covid-19 deaths.

We  will overtake Iraq today to ranked No. 22 and overtake Netherlands tomorrow to be ranked No. 21 among nations in the world with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases!

Yesterday, we also beat all the higher  top 22 countries in both “Daily Covid-19 cases per million” and “Daily Covid-19 deaths” categories for Sept. 9, 2021. (Source: Our World in Data” website).

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021)

                This entry was posted on Saturday, 11 September 2021, 7:46 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Malaysia’s Sept. 11 tragedy  – we have  beaten  USA not only in “daily Covid-19 cases per million population” but also in “daily Covid-19 deaths per million population”

Yesterday, America marked the 20th anniversary of the  Sept. 11 tragedy – but unnoticed, Malaysia was having its own Sept. 11 tragedy yesterday.

This was Malaysia catastrophic handling of the 21-month war against the Covid-19 pandemic to the extent that yesterday, we beat the USA not only in “daily Covid-19 cases  per million population”, we also beat USA in “daily Covid-19 deaths per million population”.

On 10th September, 2021, the “daily Covid-19 cases per million” for USA was 787.2 and Malaysia 64l.6 while “daily Covid-19 deaths per million” for USA was 13.24 and for Malaysia 10.40.

For Sept. 11, 2021,  the figures for both categories have been reversed and now Malaysia has got higher figures for both categories than the United States –   i.e. 592.4 for Malaysia and 214 for United States for “daily Covid 19 cases per million”  and  17.9 for Malaysia and 2.15 for United States for “daily Covid-19 deaths per million”.

There should be an explanation of the high daily death rates and Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 death cases, but also about other Covid-19 matters, like why the vaccination rate seemed to have stalled?

Malaysians had been promised half-a-million doses of vaccination a day, but this rate was achieved for for eleven days,  and since then it had plummeted.

Yesterday, the vaccination rate had fallen to 258,929 doses, which is contrary to the need for ramp up the vaccination rate especially with the Delta variant causing havoc not only in Malaysia but the world. I had in fact suggested a ramp-up of vaccination rate of one million doses of vaccines a day.

Is this because of short supply of vaccines despite government assurance of adequate vaccine supplies that we down to the administration of a quarter million doses of vaccine a day?

(Media Statement (2)  by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, September 12, 2021)

                This entry was posted on Sunday, 12 September 2021, 12:26 pm and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


With a shocking  592 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, Malaysia is now in a worse stage than the United States in its worst period during the Covid-19 pandemic when it registered a peak of 4,489 Covid-19 daily  deaths in the last week of the Trump presidency on January 12, 2021

Now I can understand the long delay in posting yesterday’s Covid-19 data on the Worldometer website, which would give among other things,  the day’s latest Covid-19  death figures by about 7 pm daily but it  was not available yesterday even after some three hours later.

I woke up this morning, like all Malaysians, to utter shock to find that the daily Covid-19 death figure for Malaysia yesterday  was an unbelievable figure of 592 deaths, which placed Malaysia as the world’s Top No. 4th country in daily Covid-19 deaths yesterday – after Russia (796 Covid-19 deaths), Mexico (699 deaths) and Brazil (635), beating United States, India and United Kingdom, the world’s top three countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

In fact, with 592 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, Malaysia is now in a worse stage than the United States in its worst period during the Covid-19 pandemic at the end of the Trump presidency in January 2021.

United States has about 10 times  the population of Malaysia and by Malaysia’s Covid-19 death data of 592 deaths yesterday, if United States were in Malaysia’s Covid-19 pandemic situation, it should have 5,920 Covid-19 deaths.

Yesterday, the United States recorded  410 Covid-19 deaths, and its worst period of the Covid-19 pandemic was during the last week of  Trump presidency,  when it reached the peak of  4489 daily Covid-19 deaths on January 12, 2021.

Most fortunately, we are not at the level of the United States in the last week of the Trump presidency, when daily new Covid-19 cases  reached its peak in the USA on January 8, 2021 with 304,810 cases while in the last week of the Trump presidency between January 12 -19, cases  hovered between 233,077  to 179,038 cases.

Is a daily 592 Covid-19 deaths a new norm for Malaysia?

Are we still to reach a new peak for daily Covid-19 deaths?

For Malaysians who still have  doubts, this is a fresh reminder that the Covid-19 pandemic poses an existential threat to Malaysia and  Malaysians must place a moratorium on all differences and think of the country more than anything  else and to unite and single-mindedly win the losing war against the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic.

We must give Malaysians hope  and confidence that Malaysians can subordinate their differences in the next 12 to 18 months to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the institutional and parliamentary structures  for Malaysia to set out again to be a world-class great nation.

When Parliament convenes on Monday, we would be ranked the world’s No. 21 among nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases as we would have joined 20 other countries with more than two million cumulative total of Covid-19 cases, and neared the 21,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths.

We would also be the World’s Top 21 nations with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases with the smallest population.

The new Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin, not yet in office for two weeks, must summon a top-level meeting of Malaysians, including experts in the public and private health sectors, to re-strategise how Malaysia can get out  of the Covid-19 pandemic which has reached its worst stage after 21 months.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on  Sunday, 12 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Sunday, 12 September 2021, 7:56 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


The 21-month Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia is equivalent to seven “911 tragedies” in the United States  in human  lives lost – when will the pandemic in Malaysia  end?

(Versi BM)

America is marking the 20th anniversary of the terrible “911” Tragedy.

For Malaysia, the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic is equivalent to seven “911” tragedies in the United States in human lives lost – and Malaysians have a right to ask: When will the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia end?

America lost 3,000 human lives in the “911” tragedy. Today, the reconvening of Parliament, Malaysia would have neared or passed the 21,000-mark for Covid-19 deaths – seven times the toll of the American “911” tragedy!

The day before, the new Health Ministry (MoH) website, CovidNow recorded that we had 592 Covid-19 deaths.

Malaysians are now told that due to ongoing exercise to clear the backlog of Covid-19 death data, the Health Ministry expects the number of “reported deaths” to spike in the coming days.

Malaysians have been advised to refer to a new data set – “actual deaths” – as an indicator of the real-time situation.

This MoH explanation has caused considerable confusion.

Firstly, the MoH is not denying that the figures of “reported deaths” represented actual number of persons who had died of Covid-19 in Malaysia.

Secondly, for how long had the Malaysian public been given a lower estimate of the Covid-19 deaths in the country – one, two or three months?

Thirdly, for yesterday’s Covid-19 deaths data, which were posted at 1.30 am. on the new COVIDNOW website and at 4 am. on Worldometer, there were 292 Covid-19 deaths, including 106 Brought-in-Dead (BID) Covid-19 deaths. How many are respectively “reported deaths” and “actual deaths”?

Fourthly, is the MOH prepared to go back for one, two or even three months to issue a correction of daily Covid-19 deaths to show the “actual death” and “reported death” position on every particular date?

I cannot understand how the former Prime Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, can continue to claim that his government’s war and strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic had not been a failure, as he claimed at the recent National Recovery Summit.

When Muhyiddin became Prime Minister on March 1, 2020, there were 29 Covid-19 cases and zero deaths. Today, we are likely to pass the two million-mark for Covid-19 cases and 21,000-mark for Covid19 deaths today?

We were ranked No. 89 when we celebrated our 57th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2020 but in the last 12 months we have overtaken 68 other countries to be ranked No. 21 country with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases to join twenty other nations with more than two million cumulative total of Covid-19 cases.

We have become the top No. 1 nation in ASEAN in daily new Covid-19 cases, and for the last 26 days, we are having more daily new Covid-19 cases than Indonesia – in fact, Indonesia has only 3,779 new Covid-19 cases yesterday as compared to Malaysia’s 19,198 new cases.

The day before, we were the world’s Top No. 6th nation in daily new Covid-19 cases and the world’s Top 4th country in daily Covid-19 deaths. Yesterday, we were the world’s Top No. 8th nation in daily new Covid-19 cases and the world’s Top No. 4th country in daily Covid-19 deaths.

With 292 Covid-19 deaths yesterday, we have now beaten the world’s Top Four Countries with the most cumulative total of Covid-19 cases in daily Covid-19 deaths – United States (246 Covid-19 deaths), India (210 deaths), Brazil (261 deaths) and the United Kingdom (56 deaths).

Aren’t these sufficient indications of the catastrophic nature of the war and strategy of the Muhyiddin government against the Covid-19 pandemic and a new start must be made in the war against the Covid-19 pandemic?

Yesterday I asked whether the national vaccination rollout has stalled – that despite the promise of the administration of half-a-million dose of vaccine a day, we had only reached 258,929 doses.

The dosage of vaccines administered yesterday was even lower – at 227,476 doses.

An explanation from the new Health Minister is warranted.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 13th September 2021)

Pandemik Covid-19 yang berlarutan selama 21 bulan di Malaysia telah mengorbankan seramai tujuh kali ganda “tragedi 9/11” di Amerika Syarikat — bilakah wabak ini akan berakhir?

Amerika sedang menandakan ulang tahun ke-20 tragedi buruk peristiwa 9/11.

Untuk Malaysia, pandemik Covid-19 selama 21 bulan ini telah mengorbankan nyawa seramai tujuh kali “tragedi 9/11” — dan rakyat Malaysia berhak untuk bertanya: Bilakah wabak ini akan berakhir?

Seramai 3,000 orang kehilangan nyawa mereka dalam tragedi 9/11 di Amerika Syarikat. Hari ini, semasa sidang Parlimen dibuka semula, Malaysia akan semakin menghampiri angka 21,000 kematian terkumpul akibat Covid-19.

Hari sebelumnya, laman web Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM), CovidNow, mencatatkan 292 kematian akibat Covid-19.

Rakyat Malaysia kini diberitahu yang disebabkan usaha KKM untuk menyelesaikan backlog maklumat kematian akibat Covid-19 sedia ada, pihak KKM menjangkakan peningkatan “kematian dilaporkan” dalam beberapa hari yang akan datang.

Rakyat Malaysia telah dinasihati untuk merujuk kepada set data yang baharu — “jumlah kematian sebenar” — sebagai petunjuk situasi semasa.

Penjelasan KKM ini telah menimbulkan kekeliruan.

Pertamanya, KKM tidak menafikan yang angka “kematian dilaporkan” ini merupakan angka sebenar jumlah orang yang telah terkorban akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia.

Kedua, berapa lamakah rakyat Malaysia telah diberikan anggaran yang lebih rendah mengenai kematian akibat Covid-19 dalam negara — satu, dua, atau tiga bulan?

Ketiga, angka kematian Covid-19 semalam, yang dilaporkan pada jam 1:30 pagi pada laman web COVIDNOW dan pada jam 4 pagi pada laman web Worldometer, menunjukkan terdapat 592 kematian, termasuklah 106 kes kematian dibawa ke hospital (BID). Berapa banyakkah kematian ini termasuklah dalam kategori “kematian dilaporkan” dan “kematian sebenar”?

Keempat, adakah KKM bersedia untuk menerbitkan pembetulan kepada angka kematian ini untuk satu, dua, atau tiga bulan yang lepas untuk setiap hari?

Saya masih tidak dapat memahami bagaimana mantan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin, dapat terus mendakwa yang perang dan strategi kerajaannya dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 ini tidak menjadi satu kegagalan, seperti yang dikatakan beliau dalam Persidangan Pemulihan Negara baru-baru ini.

Semasa Muhyiddin menjadi Perdana Menteri pada 1 Mac 2020, kita mencatatkan 29 kes Covid-19 dan sifar kematian. Hari ini, kita bakas melepasi paras 2 juta kes Covid-19 dan 21,000 kematian.

Kita berada di tempat ke-89 semasa kita menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-57 pada 16 September 2020, tetapi dalam 12 bulan yang lepas, kita telah mengatasi kedudukan 68 buah negara untuk berada di tempat ke-21 dengan jumlah kes tertinggi di dunia, bersama dengan 20 negara lain yang mencatatkan dua juta kes terkumpul Covid-19.

Kita telah menjadi negara dengan jumlah kes baharu tertinggi di ASEAN, dan untuk 26 hari yang lepas, kita mencatatkan lebih banyak kes Covid-19 berbanding dengan Indonesia — malah, Indonesia hanya mencatatkan 3,779 kes semalam berbanding dengan 19,198 kes di Malaysia.

Kelmarin, kita merupakan negara keenam di dunia dari segi jumlah kes baharu tertinggi, dan negara keempat dari segi jumlah kematian tertinggi. Semalam, kita berada di tempat kelapan dan keempat dari segi jumlah kes baharu dan kematian tertinggi.

Dengan 292 kematian akibat Covid-19 semalam, kita telah mengatakan empat negara teratas di dunia yang mencatatkan jumlah kematian terkumpul tertinggi — Amerika Syarikat (246 kematian), India (210 kematian), Brazil (216 kematian) dan United Kingdom (56 kematian).

Bukankah semua ini menjadi petunjuk yang jelas betapa gagalnya strategi kerajaan Muhyiddin dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 dan satu permulaan baharu diperlukan untuk melawan wabak ini?

Semalam, saya tanya sama ada pemberian vaksinasi kebangsaan kini semakin perlahan — walaupun kerajaan menjanjikan setengah juta dos vaksin diedarkan sehari, kita hanya mencapai kadar 258,929 dos.

Kadar dos yang diedarkan semalam juga lebih rendah, pada kadar 227,476 dos.

Kita perlukan satu penjelasan daripada Menteri Kesihatan.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Hari Isnin, 13 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Monday, 13 September 2021, 7:15 am and is filed under
COVID-19
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


The CSR memorandum of understanding between the opposition and the government a historic breakthrough and a critical test whether all Malaysians can unite to face an existential threat and reverse the tide of defeat to win the 21-month war against the Covid-19 pandemic

(Versi BM)

The confidence-supply-reform (CSR) memorandum of understanding reached between the opposition and the government is a historic breakthrough and a critical test whether all Malaysians can unite to face an existential threat and reverse the tide of defeat to win the 21-month war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

All differences will be set aside before the existential threat of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed seven “911 tragedies” in Malaysia in terms of human lives lost, as some 21,000 people in Malaysia had died of Covid-19 in the past 21 months.

We must place a moratorium on all our differences until the next general election in 10 to 18 months to unite and single-mindedly win the losing war against the 21-month Covid-19 pandemic.

We must give Malaysians hope and confidence that Malaysians can subordinate their differences in the next 10 to 18 months to win the losing war against the Covid-19 pandemic and reset the institutional and parliamentary structures for Malaysia to start anew to be a world-class great nation.

But there are red lines which neither side should violate.

Political analysts and commentators who see the CSR MOU as meaning the demise of the Opposition in Malaysia do not know history, which is replete with examples of the need for unity to face a mortal foe, whether in the example of Mao-Tse-Tung/Chiang Kai Shek United Front against the Japanese aggressors or the Winston Churchill/Clement Attlee coalition government against Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Churchill had condemned Attlee’s Labour Party socialists but when Britain was under mortal danger, Churchill and Attlee not only formed a war coalition government, they forged a United Front with Soviet Union’s Stalin against Hitler.

It is worth remembering that at the state funeral of Winston Churchill, one of the pallbearers was Clement Attlee, his wartime Deputy Prime Minister, who insisted on performing the honour despite his ill-health.

Thrown together in the dark hours of 1940, the two men forged a cross-party coalition that saved their country from their menace of Nazism and then, when Hitler was done, contested each other at the ballot box for mastery of post-war Britain. A five-year wartime partnership between two leaders, followed by a decade of peacetime competition between them!

In Malaysia, we have not gone that far. The opposition has not formed a coalition or unity government with government parties.

What we have done is to reach a confidence-supply-reform memorandum of understanding between the government and opposition with two objectives, to

Firstly prioritise, for the next 10 to 18 months until the 15th General Election, the invisible war against the Covid-19 pandemic which constitutes an existential threat to Malaysia as it has piled up two million cases and killed some 21,000 people in the last 21 months ; and

Secondly, reset institutional and parliamentary reforms so that the country can embark on economic, social and national recovery to save lives and livelihoods.

We still have critical differences with the government parties, on constitutional democracy and the Rukun Negara, the rule of law, good governance, war against corruption and abuses of power, respect for human rights and freedom of speech and expression, the economic, social and educational inequalities in the country, Malaysia as a world-class great nation and how to forge Malaysian unity out of diverse races, religions, regions and cultures in Malaysia.

But our differences can wait and must wait in the face of the existential threat of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our commonalities as a Malaysian, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, must take pre-eminent position and our common priority must be to win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic to assure a safe future for all Malaysians.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021)

Memorandum persefahaman di antara pihak pembangkang dan kerajaan adalah satu detik bersejarah dan menjadi satu ujian kritikal untuk menentukan sama ada semua rakyat Malaysia dapat bersatu untuk berhadapan dengan ancaman kepada kehidupan kita dan mengubah arah kegagalan perang 21 bulan melawan Covid-19

Memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi (CSR) di antara pihak pembangkang dan kerajaan adalah satu detik bersejarah dan menjadi satu ujian kritikal untuk menentukan sama ada semua rakyat Malaysia dapat bersatu untuk berhadapan dengan ancaman kepada kehidupan kita dan mengubah arah kegagalan perang 21 bulan melawan Covid-19.

Semua perbezaan akan diketepikan dahulu dalam berhadapan dengan wabak Covid-19 yang mengancam kehidupan dan kewujudan kita, yang telah mengorbankan tujuh kali ganda lebih ramai orang di Malaysia berbanding dengan tragedi 9/11 di AS, dengan hampir 21,000 orang terkorban akibat wabak ini dalam tempoh 21 bulan yang lepas.

Kita perlu letakkan moratorium ke atas semua perbezaan kita sehingga pilihan raya umum yang akan datang dalam tempoh 10 ke 18 dari sekarang untuk bersatu padu dan menumpukan usaha untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19.

Kita perlu berikan rakyat Malaysia harapan dan keyakinan yang kita semua boleh ketepikan perbezaan kita dalam tempoh 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 ini dan menetapkan semula struktur institusi negara dan Parlimen untuk membolehkan permulaan baharu negara kita sebagai negara berkelas dunia.

Namun, masih ada garis merah yang tidak boleh dicabuli oleh kedua-dua belah pihak.

Penganalisis dan pengulas politik yang melihat persefahaman CSR ini sebagai kehilangan Pembangkang yang berwibawa di Malaysia telah lupa untuk melihat kepada sejarah, yang penuh dengan contoh-contoh keperluan untuk bersatu apabila berhadapan dengan musuh yang membawa maut, sama ada dalam contoh seperti, Barisan Bersatu Mao Tse-Tung/Chiang Kai Shek dalam melawan pihak Jepun, atau Kerajaan Perpaduan Winston Churchill/Clement Attlee melawan Nazi Jerman pimpinan Hitler.

Churchill telah mengutuk keras Parti Buruh Attlee sebagai sosialis, tetapi apabila Britain berhadapan dengan ancaman bahaya, Churchill dan Attlee bukan sahaja membentuk kerajaan perpaduan, tetapi mereka juga membentuk pakatan dengan Stalin dari Kesatuan Soviet untuk menentang Hitler.

Penting untuk diingati, semasa majlis pengebumian Winston Churchill, salah seorang pengiring keranda beliau adalah Clement Attlee, Timbalan Perdana Menteri beliau semasa perang, yang menegaskan beliau mahu melaksanakan penghormatan terakhir tersebut walaupun tidak beberapa sihat.

Diletakkan bersama dalam waktu kelam tahun 1940, kedua mereka ini membentuk pakatan merentasi parti politik yang menyelamatkan negara mereka daripada kejahatan Nazisme, dan selepas Hitler ditewaskan, mereka bertanding melawan satu sama lain di peti undi untuk memimpin Britain pasca Perang Dunia. Persepakatan waktu perang selama lima tahun di antara dua pemimpin, yang disusuli dengan sedekad persaingan waktu aman di antara mereka berdua.

Di Malaysia, kita belum ke arah sejauh itu. Pihak pembangkang belum membentuk kerajaan pakatan atau perpaduan dengan pihak parti kerajaan.

Apa yang kita telah lakukan adalah memorandum persefahaman kepercayaan-perbekalan-reformasi di antara pihak kerajaan dan pembangkang untuk mencapai dua objektif, iaitu:

Mengutamakan, dalam tempoh 10 ke 18 bulan yang akan datang sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, usaha memenangi perang yang tidak dapat dilihat, dalam melawan wabak Covid-19 yang merupakan satu ancaman terhadap kelangsungan negara kita yang telah mengumpulkan dua juta kes jangkitan dan mengorbankan 21,000 nyawa dalam 21 bulan yang lepas; dan

Menetapkan semula reformasi institusi negara dan Parlimen supaya negara kita dapat memulakan pemulihan ekonomi, kehidupan sosial, dan negara kita untuk menyelamatkan nyawa dan punca pendapatan rakyat.

Kita masih mempunyai perbezaan kritikal dengan parti-parti kerajaan, mengenai hal demokrasi berperlembagaan dan Rukun Negara, berkenaan kedaulatan undang-undang, tadbir urus yang baik, perang melawan rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa, penghormatan kepada hak asasi manusia, kebebasan bersuara dan berpendapat, ketidaksamaan taraf ekonomi, sosial, dan akses kepada pendidikan, masa hadapan Malaysia sebagai negara hebat bertaraf dunia, dan bagaimana untuk kita menyatukan pelbagai kaum, agama, kawasan, dan budaya di Malaysia.

Tetapi, perbezaan ini perlu menunggu masa yang sesuai kerana kita berhadapan dengan ancaman besar Covid-19.

Kita punya persamaan, sebagai rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, kawasan, atau politik, perlulah diketengahkan dan keutamaan bersama kita semua mestilah untuk memenangi perang melawan wabak Covid-19 untuk memastikan adanya masa hadapan yang selamat untuk kita semua.

(Komen media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Parlimen pada hari Isnin, 13 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Monday, 13 September 2021, 5:15 pm and is filed under
CSRA
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Call on Ministers who oppose government appeal against High Court decision that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship by operation of law to jointly raise the issue to withdraw the government  appeal at this week’s Cabinet meeting

(Versi BM)

I call on Ministers who oppose the government appeal against the High Court decision that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship by operation of law to jointly raise the issue to withdraw the government appeal at this week’s Cabinet meeting.

So far, at least three federal Ministers had expressed their support for the High Court ruling, namely the de facto Law Minister, Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, the Women, Family and Community Development Minister, Rina Harun, and the Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister, Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Are there no other Cabinet Ministers who are in support of the High Court ruling, like the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture Nancy Shukri, the Higher Education Minister, Noraini Ahmad and the Minister for National Unity Halimah Mohamed Sadique?

Wan Junaidi, Rina Harun and Zuraida Kamaruddin should jointly raise the issue of the government appeal at the Cabinet meeting this week and should canvass for support on the issue from other Ministers before the Cabinet meeting.

This is a test as to what is the extent of their support for the hHigh Court decision that children born overseas to Malaysian mothers are entitled to Malaysian citizenship by operation of law.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021)

Seruan kepada Menteri yang menentang rayuan kerajaan terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi bahawa kanak-kanak yang dilahirkan di luar negara oleh ibu warganegara Malaysia berhak mendapat kewarganegaraan Malaysia melalui proses undang-undang, untuk membangkitkan perkara ini dalam mesyuarat Kabinet untuk menarik semula rayuan yang dikemukakan kerajaan

Saya menyeru kepada Menteri-menteri yang menentang rayuan kerajaan terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi bahawa kanak-kanak yang dilahirkan di luar negara oleh ibu warganegara Malaysia berhak mendapat kewarganegaraan Malaysia melalui proses undang-undang, untuk membangkitkan perkara ini dalam mesyuarat Kabinet untuk menarik semula rayuan yang dikemukakan kerajaan.

Setakat ini, sekurang-kurangnya tiga Menteri persekutuan telah menyatakan sokongan mereka terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi tersebut — mereka adalah Menteri Di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (Parlimen dan Undang-Undang), Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, Menteri Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, Rina Harun, dan Menteri Perusahaan, Perladangan dan Komoditi, Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Tidak adakah Menteri Kabinet lain yang menyokong keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi ini, sama ada Menteri Pelancongan, Kesenian dan Kebudayaan Nancy Shukri, Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Noraini Ahmad dan Menteri Perpaduan Negara Halimah Mohamed Sadique?

Wan Junaidi, Rina Harun dan Zuraida Kamaruddin harus bersama-sama membangkitkan isu rayuan kerajaan ini dalam mesyuarat Kabinet minggu ini dan perlu merayu sokongan daripada menteri lain mengenai isu tersebut sebelum mesyuarat Kabinet.

Ini adalah ujian tentang sejauh mana sokongan mereka terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi bahawa bayi yang dilahirkan di luar negara oleh ibu warganegara Malaysia berhak mendapat kewarganegaraan Malaysia melalui proses undang-undang.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Parlimen pada hari Selasa 14 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Tuesday, 14 September 2021, 10:55 am and is filed under
Gender
,
Human Rights
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.


Lets co-operate to end  the longest Covid-19 wave in the world causing two million Covid-19 cases and some 22,000 Covid-19 deaths  in Malaysia instead of spending the next 10 to 18 month  on political intrigues, plots and counterplots, though any new 10th  Prime Minister in such circumstances will not be Anwar Ibrahim

(Versi BM)

Pakatan Harapan has signed a Memorandum of Undertstanding on Transformation and Political Stability with the ninth Prime Minister, Ismail Sabri.

Lets co-operate to end the longest Covid-19 wave in the world causing two million Covid-19 cases and some 22,000 Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia instead of spending the next 10 to 18 months on political intrigues, plots and counterplots though any new 10th Prime Minister in such circumstances will not be Anwar Ibrahim.

In two days’ time, we will celebrate the 58th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2021.

On the 57th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2020, there were a cumulative total of 10,031 Covid-19 cases and 128 Covid-19 deaths. In the last 12 months, Covid-19 cases have increased by over 200 times to over two million Covid-19 cases, while Covid-19 deaths have increased by nearly 170 times to nearly 22,000 Covid-19 deaths.

We do not want this rate of exponential increase to continue for the next 12 months or we will see more Covid-19 cases than Malaysia’s population and an alarming total of over three million Covid-19 deaths at the 59th Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2022.

The ravages and destruction to lives and livelihoods, as well as to the national economy must stop, so that Malaysia can embark on economic, social and national recovery.

By the next Malaysia Day on Sept. 16, 2022, Malaysia should be well on the road to recovery and normality.

If Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics can put aside their differences and unite single-mindedly to end the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a chance we can succeed.

If we continue to allow our differences to take precedence over the Covid-19 pandemic, then we are inexorably hurtling towards a failed state.

Malaysia is capable of better things.

We do not want to be a kleptocracy or a kakistocracy.

We want to be a world-class great nation or in the words of Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman six decades ago, to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

But we cannot be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” if we cannot win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic and cannot break loose from the longest Covid-19 wave in the world since last September, which have caused over two million Covid-19 cases and some 22,000 Covid-19 deaths in the last 12 months!

This is the time that Malaysians show the world that Malaysia can do better.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 14th September 2021)

Mari kita bekerjasama untuk mengakhiri gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia yang telah mengakibatkan dua juta jangkitan Covid-19 dan sekitar 22,000 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia — bukannya menghabiskan 10 hingga 18 bulan akan datang untuk melakukan komplot politik dan menyusun plot — Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan menjadi Perdana Menteri Ke-10 dengan cara sebegitu

Pakatan Harapan telah menandatangani Memorandum Persefahaman Transformasi dan Kestabilan Politik dengan Perdana Menteri Ke-9, Ismail Sabri.

Mari kita bekerjasama untuk mengakhiri gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia yang telah mengakibatkan dua juta jangkitan Covid-19 dan sekitar 22,000 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 di Malaysia — bukannya menghabiskan 10 hingga 18 bulan akan datang untuk melakukan komplot politik dan menyusun plot — Anwar Ibrahim tidak akan menjadi Perdana Menteri Ke-10 dengan cara sebegitu.

Dalam masa dua hari lagi, kita akan menyambut Hari Malaysia ke-58 pada 16 September 2021.

Pada Hari Malaysia ke-57 pada 16 September 2020, terdapat 10,031 kes terkumpul Covid-19 dan 128 kematian akibat wabak itu. Dalam tempoh 12 bulan lalu, kes Covid-19 telah meningkat lebih 200 kali ganda kepada lebih dua juta kes, sementara kes kematian akibat Covid-19 telah meningkat hampir 170 kali ganda kepada hampir 22,000 kes.

Kita tidak mahu kadar kenaikan sepesat ini berterusan selama 12 bulan akan datang atau kita akan melihat angka kes jangkitan Covid-19 melebihi jumlah populasi Malaysia dan jumlah kes kematian yang lebih membimbangkan dengan lebih tiga juta kes kematian akibat Covid-19 pada Hari Malaysia ke-59 pada 16 September 2022.

Kerosakan dan kehancuran terhadap kehidupan dan mata pencarian, malah ekonomi negara harus dihentikan, agar Malaysia dapat memulakan pemulihan ekonomi, sosial dan negara.

Menjelang Hari Malaysia berikutnya pada 16 September 2022, Malaysia harus menuju ke arah pemulihan untuk kembali kepada kehidupan normal.

Sekiranya rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, wilayah atau politik dapat mengetepikan perbezaan dan bersatu untuk mengakhiri wabak Covid-19, ada kemungkinan kita akan memperoleh kejayaan.

Sekiranya kita terus membiarkan perbezaan kita lebih diutamakan daripada pandemik Covid-19, maka kita akan terus menuju ke arah negara yang gagal.

Malaysia mampu melakukan perkara yang lebih baik.

Kita tidak mahu menjadi kleptokrasi atau kakistokrasi.

Kita mahu menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia atau dalam kata-kata Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman enam dekad yang lalu, untuk menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu”.

Tetapi kita tidak boleh menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang kelam dan terganggu” jika kita tidak dapat memenangi perang melawan Covid-19 dan tidak dapat melepaskan diri daripada gelombang Covid-19 terpanjang di dunia yang berlarutan sejak September lalu, yang telah mengakibatkan lebih dua juta kes jangkitan Covid-19 dan kira-kira 22,000 kes kematian akibat Covid-19 sejak 12 bulan yang lalu!

Inilah masanya rakyat Malaysia menunjukkan kepada dunia bahawa Malaysia dapat melakukan yang lebih baik.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri, Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 14 September 2021)

                This entry was posted on Tuesday, 14 September 2021, 8:04 am and is filed under
COVID-19
,
CSRA
. You can follow any responses to this entry through
RSS 2.0
.