Wong confirms cholera outbreak in Bintulu

Wong confirms cholera outbreak in Bintulu
by Jonathan Chia, reporters@theborneopost.com.

Posted on July 27, 2012, Friday

CONCERNED: (From left) Dr Jerip, Dr Andrew, Wong, Dr Jamilah
and Dr Noorzilawati during the press conference.

KUCHING: Minister of Local Government and Community Development Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh yesterday confirmed that there is a cholera outbreak in Bintulu.

Speaking to reporters after a briefing by officers from the state Health Department at his office here yesterday, he said the department detected the outbreak on July 14 after a case was confirmed positive with Vibrio Cholerae.

“Since July 14, the state Health Department declared there is an outbreak detected in Bintulu.

Since then, the state Health Department initiated its investigation to trace all the suspected symptomatic cases. Anyone coming down with diarrhoea and vomiting will be investigated to check whether it is cholera or not,” he added.

Based on investigation by the department, the outbreak was believed to have started when three groups of regatta participants from Rumah Gawan, Kampung Jepak and Kampung Hilir in Sebauh, Bintulu used water from Kemena River to wash plates, fish and their hands.

Taib: Brooke Dockyard can become a giant

Taib: Brooke Dockyard can become a giant
Posted on July 15, 2012, Sunday

KUCHING: Brooke Dockyard and Engineering Works Corporation needs a detailed expansion plan in order to become a more prominent player in the engineering and petroleum-related industry.

Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, who said this, believed there is a place in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) for the corporation.

But the size of the economic cake it could take from SCORE depended very much on its future planning and restructuring exercise, said Taib at the 100th anniversary dinner of Brooke Dockyard at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) on Friday.