Resting areas for SGH frontliners
KUCHING: The Sarawak government continues to provide resting areas for the medical frontliners at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) during the movement control order (MCO) period. Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women and Family and Childhood Development Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said the the resting areas were needed as the frontliners, especially those treating Covid-19 patients, […]
State records five new cases, 11 recoveries
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded five new positive Covid-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 523 to date. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) said of the new cases, three were recorded in Samarahan, and one each in Kuching and Sibu. “One is from Kuching Conference cluster, one from the Sri Petaling […]
SDMC sends reps to SGH
ANGRY LETTER PROBE KUCHING: The Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) will get to the bottom of the issues behind an open letter by an anonymous writer who claimed to be a health care worker at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH). SDMC chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas yesterday disclosed that the committee had appointed Utilities […]
Samling donates medical supplies to SGH
KUCHING: Yaw Teck Seng Foundation of the Samling Group has donated more medical supplies to assist frontliners in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. Its latest donations included two Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines, one autoclave steriliser, one RNA extractor and two invasive ventilators. The foundtion also donated 50,000 surgical masks, 100 forehead thermometers and 5,000 […]
Police make shock find in house
KUCHING: Police made a gruesome find when they came across the decomposed body of a tenant in a house at Jalan Song here, on Thursday. Kuching district police chief ACP Awang Din Awang Gani said the victim was a 51-year-old vegetable supplier who had been renting the house the last 12 years. The body was […]
SGH lays out SOPs for wellbeing of frontliners
KUCHING: The Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) has laid out detailed standard operating procedures (SOPs) to protect its healthcare workers from Covid-19. State Health director Dr Chin Zin Hing said the measures include strengthening infection control practices, enforcing social distancing among the frontliners, screening all patients admitted to the hospital for Covid-19, providing face masks to […]
Health personnel get fresh meals from Pullman
KUCHING: Frontliners at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) battling Covid-19 recently received freshly-made meals prepared by Pullman Kuching culinary team. The three-day initiative was held on April 22, 26, and 29 in collaboration between Bon Appetit Kuching and Interhill Group of Companies. As part of the initiative, 300 packed meals prepared by Pullman Kuching were […]
SGH lockdown not necessary: Uggah
SAMARAHAN: There is no reason to enforce a lockdown on the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH), said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas. He said although there was a Covid-19 cluster involving healthcare workers and 52 healthcare workers had tested positive for Covid-19 as of Tuesday (April 28), the majority of them had not […]
More firms donating to frontliners
KUCHING: More private companies have been coming forward to assist medical frontliners in combating the Covid-19 pandemic by donating personal protection equipment (PPEs). Yesterday, a company D.A.L Keluarga Realty Sdn Bhd donated over 100 pieces of PPEs to the State Health Department and it will be distributed to frontliners at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH). Its […]
Six more positive cases in state
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded six more positive Covid-19 cases yesterday, bringing the total number of cases in Sarawak to 414 since the first positive case was reported on March 13. Of these cases, four are being treated at Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) Kuching and two at Bintulu Hospital. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah, during […]
