KUALA LUMPUR (June 1): The Ministry of Health (MoH) said the proposed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the reopening of its child care centres will be presented to the National Security Council (NSC) tomorrow.
If the SOPs are approved by the NSC at tomorrow’s meeting, a date will be fixed for the reopening of the centres, said MoH health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
"What is important is the safety [of the children] in the child care centres. It is better if they (the children) can stay at home. But if there is no one to take care of them at home, we have childcare centres at our hospitals," he said at the MoH’s daily Covid-19 press briefing.
Noor Hisham said 112 of the ministry’s 146 hospitals have attached child care centres.
"The priority is for the children of healthcare frontline workers. We are also now looking at how to increase the childcare centres in all of the government hospitals," he said.
"If there is not enough space in nurseries in hospitals, or there is no nursery in a particular hospital, then we will advise [other] nursery operators to give priority to [the children of] MoH staff," Noor Hisham added.
Calls for the reopening of childcare centres have risen lately, as parents returned to work upon the imposition of the Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) on May 4, which saw certain economic sectors reopening.
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