Report: Private clinics yet to receive test kits for Socso Covid-19 screening
Private clinics have yet to receive test kits from the Social Security Organisation (Socso) to carry out the mandated Covid-19 screening for foreign workers, according to a doctors’ group.
Health industry news site Code Blue quoted Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia president Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah who questioned the enforcement of the conditional Movement Control Order beginning May 4 without available rapid serology tests, also known as antibody tests, to screen the workers.
According to the report, Raj Kumar said the antibody tests must be done twice within a week, which means that the earliest workers can get a certificate of fitness is on May 13 if general practitioner (GP) clinics receive the kits today.
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