{"id":22709,"date":"2018-08-14T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22709"},"modified":"2018-08-14T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:18:22","slug":"datuk-sebastian-unfair-not-to-assist-sarawak-in-fight-against-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22709","title":{"rendered":"Datuk Sebastian: unfair not to assist Sarawak in fight against rabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SUPP is strongly against the federal government\u2019s decision to stop sending veterinary officers to Sarawak to help in vaccination as the war against rabies virus is a long battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The federal government had quoted budget constraint as a reason for the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In criticising the decision, SUPP secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting, who is Piasau assemblyman, said it showed that the federal government was ignorant towards the welfare of Sarawakians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cTo date, there are new cases being reported in Sarawak, thus it is high time for us to beef up all the necessary action to battle rabies virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFor PH government to make such announcement had us questioning whether they did not even take the initiative to protect the Sarawakian people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ting wants the government to put aside any political interest to focus on the welfare of the people in Sarawak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSarawakians are part of Malaysia. They deserve to be taken care of by the federal government and surely, they deserve a fair treatment just like other Malaysians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThus, the federal government cannot use the \u2018budget constraint\u2019 as excuse to stop the vaccination,\u201d said Ting in a press statement yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He revealed that based on a record released by Ministry of Health in May this year, there had been 10 rabies positive cases with eight deaths since July last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Apart from that, as of\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">May 8<\/a>, 30 areas in Sarawak had been identified as rabies epidemic areas, including Serian, Kuching, Samarahan, Sri Aman and Sarikei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Meanwhile, more than 1,630 mass anti-rabies and vaccination campaigns had been held throughout the state, where over 71,523 canines and 8,301 cats were vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe PH government cannot overlook this matter, as they have already profited a lot from Sarawak\u2019s oil and gas. It is time for them to do what they need to,\u201d Ting added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unnamed2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22710\" alt=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unnamed2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unnamed2-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unnamed2.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP is strongly against the federal government\u2019s decision to stop sending veterinary officers to Sarawak to help in vaccination as the war against rabies virus is a long battle. The federal government had quoted budget constraint as a reason for the move. In criticising the decision, SUPP secretary-general Datuk Sebastian Ting, who is Piasau assemblyman, said it showed that the federal government was ignorant towards the welfare of Sarawakians. \u201cTo date, there are new cases being reported in Sarawak, thus it is high time for us to beef up all<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22709\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22711,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22709\/revisions\/22711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}