TAWAU: The Health Ministry will set a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that must be complied by its staff when performing duties at high-risk prone areas such as the incidence of terrorist intrusion in Lahad Datu.
Its minister Datuk Seri Dr S Subramaniam said such SOP was vital to enable health personnel to work in safe conditions so that they can provide assistance to others.
He said the SOP will be issued this year and implemented on an ongoing basis as the ministry had sufficient experts to provide training on the SOP.
“Unlike security forces who are trained and exposed to the risks and taught how to tackle such risks, we (members of the public) are less focused on such matters as it rarely happened (to us).
“Since it has happened now (the terrorist intrusion) and we were involved in the incident, I suggest as part of the preparation (in facing the situation in future), we should give training to our staff on how to work in different situations,” he told reporters here yesterday after attending an appreciation ceremony for Health Ministry staff involved in Operation Daulat in Lahad Datu.
At the event, about 600 medical team members from various divisions received appreciation certificates and plaque.
They were part of 2,372 medical team members who were on duty on a rotational basis during the incident. — Bernama