| The involvement of the National Disaster Management Agency in handling the health crisis in Kuala Koh, Gua Musang, helped it formulate a more effective disaster management strategy and action plan, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.
Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the Kuala Koh health crisis was classified as Disaster Level One, and was managed in line with disaster management culture – encompassing preparedness, response and rehabilitation and mitigation to reduce its impact. “Nadma will also carry out a postmortem for the incident to study and identify the room for improvement in the management of future disasters,” she said during Minister's Question Time.This was in response to Syed Ibrahim Syeh Noh who wanted to know the extent of Nadma's involvement during the Kuala Koh crisis, and its roles in ensuring that the incident would not happen in other districts.
Elaborating, the deputy prime minister said among Nadma's roles during the disaster was to formulate a disaster management strategy through technical discussions at the operational and strategic levels to prevent the situation from getting worse.
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