“It is now complex, effective and potentially dangerous.”Yet healthcare professionals have sometimes been let down by decision-makers when patients experience danger due to structural and organisational deficiencies in healthcare facilities. The Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA) fires in Johor Baru illustrate how all the efforts of healthcare professionals may end up for naught in such situations. Subsequently, it was announced that fire audits would be carried out in all Health Ministry hospitals, starting with the older ones. This was similar to a 2015 review of fire safety in four public hospitals, published in the Advances in Environmental Biology journal. Another pertinent question concerns the prima facie non-compliance with the Cabinet decision to make the fire investigation report public.

Source: The Star August 03, 2020 23:26 UTC