Kudos to UMMC for professionalism

Kudos to UMMC for professionalism 30 DECEMBER 2015 @ 11:00 AM IN the course of these two weeks, I had to take my wife to the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) Trauma Centre, the first time on Dec 16, and the second on Dec 28, due to unexplained lethargy and extreme discomfort. Once in the evening, and the second time after midnight. The centre’s staff were efficient and went about their work diligently and with patience. The doctors in attendance were mainly young, and amazingly, all were very positive in their outlook. Both times, they subjected my wife to tests and sought details of the problem. It was with some relief that heart problems have been mainly ruled out, and even though more tests and follow-ups are necessary, I am very appreciative of the professional treatment my wife has received, at no cost. After reading reports about corrupt politicians, child molesters who are relatives, unfettered influx of illegal migrants and the horrifying rising cost of living, the quiet and dedicated way the doctors and medical staff went about their work, even in the dead of night, shows that some things are still fine in Malaysia

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Some things are still fine in Malaysia...?

Thanks for the great care at UMMC

 

IN the past two weeks, I had to take my wife to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) trauma centre, the first on Dec 16 and the other on Dec 28, due to unexplained lethargy and extreme discomfort.

Once it was in was in the evening, and the second time it was after midnight.

The centre staff were efficient and went about their work diligently and with patience.

The doctors in attendance were mainly young, and amazingly, all were very positive in their outlook.

Both times they subjected my wife to tests and sought details of the problem. It was with some relief that heart problems were mainly ruled out, and even though more tests and follow ups are necessary, I am very appreciative of the professional treatment my wife received, at no cost.

After reading mostly bad and negative news about corrupt politicians, child molesters who are relatives, unfettered influx of illegal aliens, and the horrifying rising cost of living, the quiet and dedicated way the doctors and medical staff went about their work, even in the dead of night, shows that some things are still fine in Malaysia.

http://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2015/12/30/thanks-for-the-great-care-at-ummc/

Population increase due to foreign workers

Monday, 29 June 2015

Population increase due to foreign workers

 

I REFER to the letter “Increase in population will have negative effects” by Dr A. Soorian (The Star, June 25).

I must say that he is right in all respects regarding population explosion and climate change.

Governments, in his view, should be more circumspect in implementing policies that could cause more harm to the environment in the long term, and can have disastrous social consequences too.

But the much respected doctor has omitted to mention that, for Malaysia at least, the damage to the environment and the nation’s social fabric due to “population” increase is already taking place in front of our own eyes, in the form of foreign workers “imported” to support our low-wage economic policies.

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What is worse is that such a policy has invariably attracted much illegal migration at out porous borders, and human trafficking too, as the recent exposure of mass Rohingya graves at our northern borders has borne out.

If Malaysia is to play its part in combating climate change and economic degradation, it has to, to borrow another writer’s words, think out of the box, and have a stiff political spine too.

For example, is our hotly touted “high income” nation status to be continuously fuelled by cheap, even illegal labour?

 http://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2015/06/29/population-increase-due-to-foreign-workers/

foreigners-getting-out-of-hand

http://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2014/03/08/foreigners-getting-out-of-hand/

I REFER to the article “Assaulted orang asli group claims cops sided with attackers” (The Star, March 7).

One can’t help but wonder if Malaysia has reached the “tipping point” in its continued exploitation of cheap low-skilled foreign labour, many of which have been “imported” illegally.

Many times it had been reported that uncontrolled use of so many foreign workers, who have no loyalty to the nation, will cause harm to our social fabric, besides consuming much of our limited natural resources.

Two days ago, some foreigners killed a police officer and injured his partner in Klang, and the latest incident shows the impunity that the Myanmars have acted, though it would seem with tacit backing?

keep foreigners out of Retail Trade

http://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2015/12/15/keep-foreigners-out-of-retail-trade/

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Keep foreigners out of retail trade

 

I REFER to the SMS “Help needed” (The Star, Dec 14) appealing to the Government for help to stop the illegal racket of foreigners taking over the operations and the retailing of vegetables and other supplies in the wholesale market.

It does seem like a desperate appeal from the rakyat who are at wit’s end falling foul to the thuggish tactics of allegedly illegal immigrants who monopolise this niche of the business.

The resulting effect of this is the surge in prices of basic food items at the pasar tani and pasar pagi.

It is moot to mention that it’s also putting an unnecessary additional burden on us, who already have to bear the indiscriminate increases in prices by heartless traders because of the GST.

I have, through the years,

been writing to The Star about

the deleterious effects of the

unfettered influx of foreign

workers into Malaysia, as besides taking away much needed jobs and business opportunities from the rakyat, these lowly-paid workers will cause our environment to degrade as they use up a significant part of our natural resources and potable water.

I have also raised the issue that in other Asean countries and in nations across the Asia-Pacific region, almost NO other country will allow foreigners to take part in the retail sector of businesses like the distribution of vegetables, etc, grocery shops, tailors, laundry shops, and even food retail shops.

Why is Malaysia so lax in such a situation? Why do our local councils allow them a free hand in the retail sector of businesses?

If this condition, as expressed by the writer in his short appeal, is not properly addressed and soon, I am not sure if the rakyat can remain quiet.

Are our leaders deaf to our sufferings?