NILAI: The Ministry of Health (MoH) will release particulars of the revised commonplace working procedures (SOP) associated to COVID-19 quickly following the nation’s transition to the part of residing with the pandemic.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, stated the revised SOP covers residence surveillance order (HSO), use of face masks and the declaration of native areas of an infection.
“As quickly as we’ve the implementation date, the Director General of Health will release the small print to the general public.
“The particulars are technical. For instance, the HSO was beforehand for 5 days and wanted to replace the signs in MySejahtera…with the assessment it might change.
“It is now an period the place we begin treating COVID-19 like different viruses akin to influenza. We used to transfer from a pandemic to an endemic, now we wish to get out of an endemic transition to residing with the virus,“ he stated
He informed reporters thus after opening the ministry’s Nutrition Month Malaysia (NMM) 2024 with the theme “Change Mindset to Prevent Diet Related Diseases” right here in the present day.
Regarding in the present day’s programme, he stated it goals to spotlight the significance of a broad-based method in encouraging the general public to change their mindset in direction of the prevention of diet-related dietary issues and supply steering for the adoption of wholesome consuming and lively residing practices.
He stated the present prevalence of non-communicable ailments (NCDs) within the nation could be very worrying with the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2023 exhibiting a rise within the prevalence of weight problems and obese to 54.5 per cent final yr from 50.1 per cent in 2019.
“Consistently for the final decade, for each two Malaysian adults, one is obese, whereas one in six adults has diabetes, exhibiting that greater than half of adults are uncovered to the chance of getting NCDs due to uncontrolled weight problems,“ he stated
Dr Dzulkefly stated the MoH has additionally drafted a Strategic Plan for Reducing Sugar Among Malaysians (2024-2030) to guarantee extra aggressive and focused actions will be applied in an built-in method at varied ranges.
“It is to deal with extreme sugar consumption by means of the War on Sugar initiative that shall be launched quickly,” he stated.
