Today started a big scare at Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital where a policeman died today. People got scared when they saw the hospital staff handling the body wearing face masks and gloves.
The use of face masks and gloves in hospitals is normal procedure to prevent the spread of any contagious diseases.
The body of the policeman has been sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital for a post mortem to find out whether he had died of any contagious disease such as:
- swine flu, in Kosher language: Mexican flu, and in Halal language: Influenza A(H1N1)
- meningitis, which resulted in the death of a 24 year old trainee in Malacca and has many quarantined and 46 people still remaining in an isolation ward.
We cross our fingers that we get real updates about this disease or that we will hear in the news tomorrow that Malaysia has everything under control, as usual.
Already there is a controversy in the schools of Tiang Dua close to where the meningitis outbreak started: kids where given masks to protect them from the bacterial meningitis.
The next day government ordered mask where not necessary as …
"not to panic the general public seeing kids wearing masks".
Of course the next day parents stopped sending their children to school. And I can predict you will read in the papers tomorrow that there really is no need to wear masks and all is under control…
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