30.8.22
Donation for Covid-19 and emerging infectious disease fight
Dr Joseph Han Kyun is a medical consultant in private practice who has been involved in charitable services for the past 30 years.
He sat in over 50 Non-Government Organisation( NGO), No Profit Organisation ( NPO), professional bodies as well as Government Institutions concerning health and welfare affairs.
His wealth of experience and networking allowed him the opportunity to create network of donor, business intreprenour and philanthropists to channel their Corporate and Social Responsibily ( CSR) contribution smoothly and to the target group. Most donors requested to remain anonymous.
Today he is handing over Personal Protective Equipment( PPE) for the purpose of fighting against Covid-19 and other emerging infectious diseases.
Donation was handed over to Director of Sabah Social Welfare Department( Jabatan Perkhidmatan Kebajikan Am Sabah) , Tuan Jais Asri witnessed by Puan Roshayati binti Omar Deputy Director, Federal Welfare Department. Also present is Desa Bina Diri Kota Kinabalu Principal Mr Jailani Majid.
The hand over took place at the Sabah State Disaster Storage Warehouse Facilities ( Depoh Simpanan Keperluan Bencana Negeri Sabah) in Sembulan, Kota Kinabalu. The donation is valued at RM312,000.
Dr Lee had also delivered PPE to other government hospitals in the past few months namely Hospital Wanita dan Kanak-kanak Likas, Hospital Tuaran, Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang and Makmal Kesihatan Awam Kota Kinabalu. The total contribution to date had reached RM705,900 .
When asked, Dr Lee cautioned that Covid-19 cases has never gone down to a safe level, even though we are technically in the Endemic phase of Covid-19. As this is an infectious and airborne disease, an outbreak can happen anytime with new strain appearing or due to high risk activities such as mass gathering with no regard at all over personal hygiene and protection.
He urged that everyone must continue to be vigilant to prevent infection or reinvention.
He further added that for the same ” mode of infection” for infectious disease especially airborne type, there is need for better understanding of the nature on ‘how disease spread’ via education and public health promotion. Sabah still recorded the highest number of airborne disease such as tuberculosis despite compulsory vaccination for all Malaysian. He said tuberculosis or commonly called TB is also associated with risk behavioir such as smoking.
On another note he urged the public to get their annual influenza vaccination to be on the safe side as its readily available, effective and at affordable price. This will make it easier to rule out infection.
Dr Joseph Lee 