Thursday, 14 Jan 2021 10:23 AM MYT
The key element in the blueprint of action to mitigate this Covid-19 national emergency, must surely be a well-executed Find, Test, Trace, Isolate and Support system recommended by the WHO, which has fallen terribly short in its national implementation. Clinical support is also vital for monitoring the health of cases and contacts who are undergoing home isolation in the community.
Imagine if you only screened 10 per cent of the cluster, and all returned as negative whilst the positive cases were all in the 90 per cent you failed to screen, this would be totally disastrous. This new strategy is against good public health science and is against all norms of targeted mass screening. Besides the MOH must remove its thinking from absolute numbers and shift to incidence rates which is a basic Public Health metric.
Rapid and seamless integration between MySejahtera and Selangkah datasets is essential to provide high quality information to the community to build trust and engagement, whilst complying with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010. The FTTIS strategy could be utilised to spearhead the immunisation programme, FTTIS-Immunisation, FTTISI, as a holistic package of healthcare services to flatten the Epidemic Curve and a return to near-normalcy.
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