Dr Jemilah Mahmood responds to a claim by Dr Musa Mohd Nordin. FMTNews PPE Covid19
Special adviser to the prime minister on public health Dr Jemilah Mahmood says the nurse may have contracted the virus from a colleague in an orthopaedics ward.
The colleague was infected by her husband who may have been exposed to the Sri Petaling mosque cluster, it was learned.She also said PPEs were not a requirement in the orthopaedics ward, and to date, not a single healthcare worker based in a Covid-19 ward where PPE was mandatory had died. Referring to statistics on the number of healthcare workers infected by Covid-19, provided by the health ministry , Musa said “nuances from the MOH seem to suggest that healthcare workers are somewhat immune from hospital acquired Covid-19 infections”.
She pointed out that she and Musa were both members of the health advisory council under former minister Dzulkelfy Ahmad.
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