Dr Sim praises medical gas manufacturer for being well-prepared amidst Covid-19 pandemic
Housing and Local Government Minister Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian yesterday visited Linde’s medical and industrial gases manufacturing and distribution facility located in Bintawa.
The facility is considered a very significant essential service provider, more so during this Covid-19 pandemic.
“Linde’s team demonstrated their capabilities and preparedness to service medical gases requirement of Sarawak and in particular, during this Covid-19 related pandemic period,” said Dr Sim, who is also the Sarawak Covid-19 Vaccination Advisory Group (Scovag) advisor, in a statement yesterday.
“Understanding their infrastructure and level of preparedness, provides an assurance that we would have adequate supply of medical gases, if the need arises,” he added .
Linde has two liquid medical oxygen production facilities located in Samajaya here and Bintulu and multiple gaseous medical gases cylinder filling and distribution facilities located each in Bintawa, Miri and Sibu.
Linde not only has manufacturing facilities through-out Sarawak but also has a well-established distribution fleet comprising of cryogenic mobile tanks and trucks to supply medical and industrial gases apart from competent people with good know-how in safe production and distribution of these gases, the statement said.
Linde also has several other medical and industrial gases manufacturing facilities spread across Malaysia.