“If the GoM takes the idea up seriously, irons out the necessary red tape and mobilises the required number of contractors and medical suppliers with the help of government-friendly construction giants such as UEM Group Berhad, YTL Corp Berhad or Gamuda Berhad, we could have a facility of such proportions up and running in no time at all, possibly even within a timespan of 10 days, maybe less”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
#تتفچوۏيد19: بڬينيله چاراڽ مليسيا بوليه بينا هوسڤيتل چڠڬيه بارو كورڠ 10 هاري
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The Government of Malaysia (GoM) may not be able to build hospitals under 10 days like China, but it most certainly can identify and refurbish an existing low to medium-cost housing project that has been abandoned for years but is over 85-90 per cent complete.
If the GoM can speed up the red tape and get private corporations and (or) government linked companies to contribute to the takeover of these projects, it could turn these houses into a cluster community of clinics and hospital wards isolated from one another according to the severity of Covid-19 cases.
Some of the houses could serve as incubation units for more severe cases, while others could be used as rehabilitation centres to nurse recovering patients and (or) cases with mild symptoms.
The project could be termed the “Disease Control and Outbreak Cluster Community” hospital (DCOCC) and could be used in the future to contain other outbreaks no matter how severe these outbreaks may be.
The DCOCC could designate several houses as laboratories to conduct immediate tests on blood and other patient samples and expand these laboratories in the future to conduct in situ research on the genetic material found in pathogens.
One or two units could also be used to conduct clinical trials on volunteers by employing drugs that researchers in other countries have found to give promising results in the treatment of Covid-19 infections.
If the GoM takes the idea up seriously, irons out the necessary red tape and mobilises the required number of contractors and medical suppliers with the help of government-friendly construction giants such as UEM Group Berhad, YTL Corp Berhad or Gamuda Berhad, we could have a facility of such proportions up and running in no time at all, possibly even within a timespan of 10 days, maybe less.
