By Adrian Lim
KUCHING, May 31: Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing urges the people of Kapit to get vaccinated in order for Sarawak to achieve herd immunity quickly.
While visiting his nephew, Nicholas Kudi, who is also the political secretary to the Chief Minister who lost his father and mother due to Covid-19 in Kapit today, Masing noted that Kapit hospital is running out of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and facilities to treat Covid-19 patients.
Hence, he urges the people to register and get vaccinated as soon as possible to save their lives and for Sarawak to achieve herd immunity.
In a sombre mood, Masing said, “Listening to his ordeal watching his parents die in Kapit hospital because of Covid-19 is horrible. It’s a vision we see in our nightmares.
“Kapit Hospital is running out of ICU ward beds and the facilities required to treat Covid-19 patients. The frontliners, the nurses and the doctors in Kapit Hospital are exhausted, including the undertakers who bury the dead.
“They are trying their best to fight the horrors of this deadly devastation by Covid-19 to people in Kapit.
“What is happening in Kapit Hospital now, will soon be similar to what we see in India where hundreds die on hospital hallways,” he believed.
Thus, Masing who is also Baleh assemblyman, reminded the people in Kapit that the only way to save Kapit and the rest of Sarawak from the devastating effects of coronavirus is to be vaccinated.
He also believed the faster the government can roll out the vaccination, the better it is, adding that the Sarawak inoculation programme should be the number one priority of the government.
He also appealed to Putrajaya not to make economic considerations or red tapes for the procurement of vaccines as obstacles to saving human lives.
“My nephew was saved as he cared for his parents, because he had been vaccinated. So were the frontliners. They are able to carry out their work because they have been vaccinated,” Masing affirmed. — DayakDaily
