‘Vital for Miri Hospital to have special unit’

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MAKING A PROPOSAL FOR A SPECIAL UNIT: Ting (centre) talks to reporters. Karambir is on the left and Chia on the right.

MIRI: Datuk Sebastian Ting yesterday suggested that a special unit for burns be set up at Miri Hospital as soon as possible.

The political secretary to the Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chin believed the special unit was essential so that patients would not have to be referred to other hospitals in the event of emergencies.

“With the availability of such facility, patients suffering from burns and other related cases could be treated here,” he said when speaking to reporters at the hospital yesterday.

According to him, only Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in Kuching had the special unit, with another one in Sabah.

He thus hoped the Health Ministry would look seriously into the matter and implement his proposal soonest.

Ting suggested this following a fire incident at an oil production platform in Miri at 9.20am incident yesterday, which injured five workers.

Two suffered second degree burns on their bodies and the other one was in critical condition, while the other two had been discharged.

Ting said two of the workers were Petronas staff and the other three were contract staff.

“Their condition, including the severe one, is stable following resuscitation,” he said.

Ting was accompanied by Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) assistant secretary-general Karambir Singh and former Pujut assemblyman Andy Chia.