Forget about failed state debate, our healthcare system is failing - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Malaysiakini : “Our government hospitals have been starved for too many years due to poor funding, and a starving person cannot fight infection.” – Anonymous frontline health worker

COMMENT | The debate if Malaysia is a failed, failing or going to fail state is a distraction. The existential threat facing Malaysia at this moment is that our healthcare system is failing, right before our eyes but more importantly the political will to battle this pandemic is directed at the conflict within the establishment.

For years, our healthcare system was riddled with the usual afflictions associated with the ethnocentric rule, which meant that incompetent management, corruption and a general malaise towards the rakyat were debilitating but the country and the healthcare system managed to limp around like a befuddled patient wandering the halls of a general hospital.

What this pandemic has done, what healthcare professionals and competent leaders the world over had warned, is that this pandemic exposes the structural weakness of any given system. At any other time, even under Umno or Pakatan Harapan rule, we would have at least managed to put up a good if compromised fight. However, with this backdoor government, all we have are a bunch of brigands more interested in political survival than running this country, even if in a flawed manner.

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