KENYATAAN AKHBAR
YB MENTERI KESIHATAN MALAYSIA
NASIHAT KESIHATAN MENCEGAH KEMUDARATAN JEREBU
Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia adalah merujuk kepada kenyataan akhbar Y.A.B Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin selaku Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pengurusan dan Bantuan Bencana Pusat mengenai situasi berjerebu di Muar pada 20 Oktober 2010. Berikut adalah nasihat kesihatan mencegah kemudaratan jerebu terutama kepada orang ramai di Muar dan lain-lain kawasan yang sedang dilanda jerebu:
Kurangkan aktiviti fizikal di luar rumah.
Sentiasa cuba berada di dalam bangunan (indoor). Jika terpaksa berada di luar, gunakan penutup hidung dan mulut (mask) yang sesuai.
Pastikan udara di dalam rumah/bangunan sentiasa bersih.
Kurangkan sumber pencemaran dalaman seperti asap rokok.
Apabila memandu, gunakan penghawa dingin. Pilih operasi (mode) kitaran udara dalaman.
Banyak minum air kosong (sekurang-kurangnya 8 gelas sehari).
Basuh tangan dan muka dengan sabun dan air bersih selepas melakukan/menghadiri aktiviti luar.
Mereka yang mengalami penyakit-penyakit seperti batuk, selsema, asma, sakit mata, jangkitan paru-paru yang kronik hendaklah datang ke klinik dengan seberapa segera jikalau keadaan penyakit bertambah teruk.
Orang awam boleh mendapatkan langkah-langkah pencegahan bagi mengurangkan kesan kesihatan akibat jerebu boleh diperolehi dari laman web http://www.infosihat.gov.my.
Sekian dan terima kasih.
(YB DATO’ SRI LIOW TIONG LAI)
Menteri Kesihatan Malaysia
Tarikh: 21 Oktober 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Langkah berjaga-jaga elak jangkitan Superbug
Berita Harian
Rabu, 27/10/2010
Langkah berjaga-jaga elak jangkitan Superbug
GUA MUSANG: Malaysia mencatatkan kes pertama jangkitan bakteria dikenali sebagai Superbug, membabitkan seorang wanita yang tersilap mengambil dos ubatan.
Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, berkata wanita berusia 24 tahun yang dikesan mendapat jangkitan bakteria itu pada bulan lalu kini sudah pulih selepas mendapat rawatan. Bagaimanapun, katanya, wanita berkenaan masih perlu menjalani rawatan susulan walaupun sudah dibenarkan pulang ke rumah. "Dia dikesan mendapatkan jangkitan Superbug itu pada bulan lalu dan kini masih perlu mendapatkan rawatan dari semasa ke semasa bagi memastikannya bebas sepenuhnya.
"Saya nak jelaskan bahawa Superbug adalah kuman, bukannya virus. Biasanya Superbug berlaku kepada orang yang lemah tahap daya tahan badan.
"Ia juga boleh berjangkit melalui sentuhan pada luka dialami orang yang mempunyai jangkitan kuman terbabit," katanya di sini, semalam.
Liow berkata, sejak Superbug dikesan mulai 2008 di negara seperti India, Pakistan dan United Kingdom, Kementerian Kesihatan segera melaksanakan langkah berjaga-jaga bagi mengelakkan jangkitan bakteria itu merebak di negara ini.
Beliau berkata, Institut Penyelidikan Perubatan (IMR) juga sudah diarah menjalankan ujian bagi mengenal pasti serta mengesahkan kewujudan bakteria membawa gen NDM-1 di negara ini.
"Saya sudah arahkan semua hospital di seluruh negara untuk menghantar sampel bakteria yang menunjukkan corak kerintangan tinggi terhadap kebanyakan antibiotik diuji kepada IMR untuk ujian lanjut.
"Setakat ini, IMR menyaring 18 isolat bakteria menunjukkan corak kerintangan yang tinggi dan didapati hanya satu isolat positif terhadap gen NDM-1," katanya.
Rabu, 27/10/2010
Langkah berjaga-jaga elak jangkitan Superbug
GUA MUSANG: Malaysia mencatatkan kes pertama jangkitan bakteria dikenali sebagai Superbug, membabitkan seorang wanita yang tersilap mengambil dos ubatan.
Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, berkata wanita berusia 24 tahun yang dikesan mendapat jangkitan bakteria itu pada bulan lalu kini sudah pulih selepas mendapat rawatan. Bagaimanapun, katanya, wanita berkenaan masih perlu menjalani rawatan susulan walaupun sudah dibenarkan pulang ke rumah. "Dia dikesan mendapatkan jangkitan Superbug itu pada bulan lalu dan kini masih perlu mendapatkan rawatan dari semasa ke semasa bagi memastikannya bebas sepenuhnya.
"Saya nak jelaskan bahawa Superbug adalah kuman, bukannya virus. Biasanya Superbug berlaku kepada orang yang lemah tahap daya tahan badan.
"Ia juga boleh berjangkit melalui sentuhan pada luka dialami orang yang mempunyai jangkitan kuman terbabit," katanya di sini, semalam.
Liow berkata, sejak Superbug dikesan mulai 2008 di negara seperti India, Pakistan dan United Kingdom, Kementerian Kesihatan segera melaksanakan langkah berjaga-jaga bagi mengelakkan jangkitan bakteria itu merebak di negara ini.
Beliau berkata, Institut Penyelidikan Perubatan (IMR) juga sudah diarah menjalankan ujian bagi mengenal pasti serta mengesahkan kewujudan bakteria membawa gen NDM-1 di negara ini.
"Saya sudah arahkan semua hospital di seluruh negara untuk menghantar sampel bakteria yang menunjukkan corak kerintangan tinggi terhadap kebanyakan antibiotik diuji kepada IMR untuk ujian lanjut.
"Setakat ini, IMR menyaring 18 isolat bakteria menunjukkan corak kerintangan yang tinggi dan didapati hanya satu isolat positif terhadap gen NDM-1," katanya.
Superbug detected in woman
The Star
Wednesday, 27/10/2010
Superbug detected in woman
By CHRISTINA TAN
GUA MUSANG: A superbug which is resistant to antibiotics has been detected in a 24-year-old woman, the first known case in Malaysia, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Liow Tiong Lai.
She has since recovered after receiving treatment at Ampang Hospital in Selangor for the past one month.
"Fortunately, she is only a carrier and we were able to extract the bacteria from her body," Liow told reporters yesterday outside the nomination centre in Galas when he and other party leaders were accompanying the Barisan Nasional candidate Abdul Aziz Yusof to file his nomination papers.
"We are monitoring the patient closely to ensure the superbug is not transmitted to health workers and other patients," he said.
Liow said the superbug, known scientifically as the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1), was not a threat to the patient and she was receiving regular attention at the hospital.
Asked how the patient contracted the bug, he said: "It can be anywhere, and can evolve in the body."
The patient had not travelled overseas, he added.
He said the Institute for Medical Research notified the ministry on the detection of the superbug.
Liow reminded all health workers and doctors to abide by the guidelines and standard operating procedure in handling all patients to ensure the superbug did not spread in the country.
Hospitals or clinics are required to immediately report any suspected cases.
"Don't simply give antibiotics as the bug is immune to the drugs and will evolve," warned Liow.
He added that the superbug was only transmitted through direct contact like touching and through wounds, not through the air.
Identified in India and Pakistan, it had reportedly caused the death of a Belgian man and infected several people from Britain, Australia and the United States who travelled to the two countries for surgery.
The Belgian was reportedly infected by the bacteria after being hospitalised in Pakistan for a leg injury suffered in a car accident.
According to the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NDM-1 is an enzyme that destroys many commonly used antibiotics, rendering them ineffective.
On another development, Liow said Malaysia needed 500 doctors to treat senior citizens for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
He said the country had only 13 such doctors. The Government was hiring foreign doctors to meet the shortage, while training more doctors in this field, he said, adding that the ministry was targeting to have 50 doctors in five years.
Wednesday, 27/10/2010
Superbug detected in woman
By CHRISTINA TAN
GUA MUSANG: A superbug which is resistant to antibiotics has been detected in a 24-year-old woman, the first known case in Malaysia, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Liow Tiong Lai.
She has since recovered after receiving treatment at Ampang Hospital in Selangor for the past one month.
"Fortunately, she is only a carrier and we were able to extract the bacteria from her body," Liow told reporters yesterday outside the nomination centre in Galas when he and other party leaders were accompanying the Barisan Nasional candidate Abdul Aziz Yusof to file his nomination papers.
"We are monitoring the patient closely to ensure the superbug is not transmitted to health workers and other patients," he said.
Liow said the superbug, known scientifically as the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1), was not a threat to the patient and she was receiving regular attention at the hospital.
Asked how the patient contracted the bug, he said: "It can be anywhere, and can evolve in the body."
The patient had not travelled overseas, he added.
He said the Institute for Medical Research notified the ministry on the detection of the superbug.
Liow reminded all health workers and doctors to abide by the guidelines and standard operating procedure in handling all patients to ensure the superbug did not spread in the country.
Hospitals or clinics are required to immediately report any suspected cases.
"Don't simply give antibiotics as the bug is immune to the drugs and will evolve," warned Liow.
He added that the superbug was only transmitted through direct contact like touching and through wounds, not through the air.
Identified in India and Pakistan, it had reportedly caused the death of a Belgian man and infected several people from Britain, Australia and the United States who travelled to the two countries for surgery.
The Belgian was reportedly infected by the bacteria after being hospitalised in Pakistan for a leg injury suffered in a car accident.
According to the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NDM-1 is an enzyme that destroys many commonly used antibiotics, rendering them ineffective.
On another development, Liow said Malaysia needed 500 doctors to treat senior citizens for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
He said the country had only 13 such doctors. The Government was hiring foreign doctors to meet the shortage, while training more doctors in this field, he said, adding that the ministry was targeting to have 50 doctors in five years.
Mutasi baru Superbug lebih bahaya
KUALA LUMPUR - Kementerian Kesihatan semalam meminta orang ramai berwaspada terhadap ancaman bakteria kebal antibiotik, Superbug yang muncul dengan baka genetik baru selepas dikesan menyerang pesakit di Jepun, India, Pakistan dan United Kingdom (UK).
Walaupun setakat ini bakteria itu belum dikesan di Malaysia, pihak berkuasa kesihatan bimbang peningkatan perjalanan keluar masuk orang ramai khususnya pelancong mendorong ia bertukar menjadi wabak global.
Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, serangan bakteria itu berbahaya kerana ia sudah dikenal pasti kebal terhadap semua jenis antibiotik.
"Kita sudah memulakan langkah pengawasan di semua hospital seluruh negara terutama jika ada kes bakteria yang mempunyai rintangan tinggi terhadap antibiotik,'' katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini semalam.
Kosmo
Walaupun setakat ini bakteria itu belum dikesan di Malaysia, pihak berkuasa kesihatan bimbang peningkatan perjalanan keluar masuk orang ramai khususnya pelancong mendorong ia bertukar menjadi wabak global.
Menteri Kesihatan, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai berkata, serangan bakteria itu berbahaya kerana ia sudah dikenal pasti kebal terhadap semua jenis antibiotik.
"Kita sudah memulakan langkah pengawasan di semua hospital seluruh negara terutama jika ada kes bakteria yang mempunyai rintangan tinggi terhadap antibiotik,'' katanya dalam satu kenyataan di sini semalam.
Kosmo
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Produk sibutramine ditarik balik
KUALA LUMPUR - Pihak Berkuasa Kawalan Dadah (PBKD) telah mengeluarkan arahan menarik balik produk kesihatan yang mengandungi sibutramine dari pasaran kerana ia didapati mampu meningkatkan risiko kesan advers kardiovaskular seperti serangan jantung dan strok.
Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan dan Pengerusi PBKD, Tan Sri Dr. Mohd. Ismail Merican dalam satu kenyataan berkata, keputusan menarik balik serta menggantung pendaftaran produk yang mengandungi bahan itu ialah berdasarkan kajian Sibutramine Cardiovaskular OUTcomes (SCOUT) bagi produk Reductil yang dijalankan oleh Abbot Laboratories.
"Kajian tersebut menunjukkan sibutramine mampu meningkatkan risiko advers kardiovaskular terutamanya ke atas pesakit obes dan berlebihan berat badan berbanding pesakit yang menjalani senaman dan kawalan pemakanan,'' jelasnya.
Kosmo 12/10/10
Ketua Pengarah Kesihatan dan Pengerusi PBKD, Tan Sri Dr. Mohd. Ismail Merican dalam satu kenyataan berkata, keputusan menarik balik serta menggantung pendaftaran produk yang mengandungi bahan itu ialah berdasarkan kajian Sibutramine Cardiovaskular OUTcomes (SCOUT) bagi produk Reductil yang dijalankan oleh Abbot Laboratories.
"Kajian tersebut menunjukkan sibutramine mampu meningkatkan risiko advers kardiovaskular terutamanya ke atas pesakit obes dan berlebihan berat badan berbanding pesakit yang menjalani senaman dan kawalan pemakanan,'' jelasnya.
Kosmo 12/10/10
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