Selangor reopens childcare centres in hospitals, govt agencies for Covid frontliners

 

The Selangor government has reactivated additional childcare centres in six hospitals and a few government agencies for the Covid-19 frontliners, including healthcare staff and security personnel.

In a statement issued today, Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari (photo, above) said the initiatives are meant to assist the frontliners during the implementation of the conditional movement control order (CMCO) in Selangor.

The childcare centres will be set up at Sungai Buloh Hospital, Banting Hospital, Selayang Hospital, Kajang Hospital, Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang and the Shah Alam Hospital.

Apart from the hospitals, childcare centres will be reactivated at the Selangor Health Department, Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah and Bangunan Darul Ehsan, Amirudin said.

"All the childcare centres in the hospitals are opened to the medical staff only, while the childcare centres at Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah and Bangunan Darul Ehsan will be utilised by all frontliners, including the police and army," he said.

"We hope that our initiative can somehow reduce the burden of the frontliners who are risking their lives to tackle the pandemic."

In March, the state government set up four childcare centres in three hospitals and at the state Health Department.

Back then, frontliners complained that a few private nursery and childcare centres rejected taking in their children as the parents were considered having a higher risk of being infected with the coronavirus. - Mkini