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Not enough beds for critical patients, efforts underway to improve capacity
Many critical non-Covid-19 patients have to wait to get a bed in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of hospitals as they are congested with Covid-19 patients, but efforts are being made to improve hospital bed capacity, Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said.
Noor Hisham said the number of Covid-19 patients in the ICUs, particularly in the Klang Valley, is still not coming down.
At present, he said, there are 1,224 Covid-19 patients, including suspected and...
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