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> Cleaner hospitals
Dr Leong’s advice to minimise infection in a clinical setting is spot on. Often, visits to hospitals (esp public ones) make me cringe – bloodstains on the floor, on bedsheets and pillows and even on patients who have not been wiped clean. Is it any wonder then that carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is on the rise? Mercy, at times a visit to these hospitals can make you sick to your stomach. – Janq
> Double standards
Wong Chun Wai’s bold article hits the bullseye about politicians who will not think twice to practice double standards and take to the streets ostensibly in the name of race to prolong their political survival. The logic-defying decision of the Kelantan State Government to declare Sunday a public holiday to enable people to attend the Saturday street rally is a new low point. Please contribute meaningfully to Malaysia Baru. – Beatle No.5
> Cool heads needed
Malaysia and Singapore must use the highest diplomatic channels to resolve the border dispute. May cool heads and common sense prevail. Too much is at stake for anything else. – Lee Hui Seng
> Lose subsidy mentality
A loan, any which way you look at it the world over, is still a loan. PTPTN loans are taxpayers’ money borrowed with the intention of repaying with a pre-agreed interest rate and time frame because your parents couldn’t or didn’t want to pay for your further education. This was never a birthright under any interpretation but a privilege to be honoured. You should be ashamed of yourself if you try to run away from repaying it, that would make you nothing but a common thief. The sooner the subsidy mentality is abandoned, the better. – GPIKPNG The government should consider stopping the PTPTN loans until concerted efforts are made by borrowers to repay. No where in the world can you take a loan then refuse to pay. Grow up, people.
> Healthcare reform
Illness and diseases don’t cherry pick among races. Policymakers should be serious and boldly work on healthcare financing and subsidies reform – but perhaps we are already in the terminal stages for the current generation. How about the future?
> No achievement
What did anti-Icerd rally achieve? Nothing. It only caused a lot of inconvenience to the general public. And it tarnished the country’s name in the tourism industry. – Subra
By not ratifying Icerd, have we now lost the right to condemn racial and religious discrimination in our neighbouring countries? – In Doubt