COMMENT | Do you hate paying super high fees at private hospitals? Do you wish public hospitals had more doctors and shorter waiting times? Should the government spend more money to improve our healthcare system?

Should government doctors have better job security? Should they be fairly compensated for risking their lives everyday on the frontlines of the pandemic to save the rakyat? If you said “yes” to any of the above questions, then you should support the strike by young contract doctors or #HartalDoktorKontrak.

Yet, the government claims that it “doesn’t have enough money” to give these medics fixed jobs. But Malaysia does have money for other things. We are a rich country that has been made poor by political parasites. Everyone has some story of the government coughing up for an overpriced contract or a dubious deal.

Forget about the “famous” mega scandals such as 1MDB, Tabung Haji, and Felda. Why must this backdoor government spend some RM333 million for “rentals and utilities” of mega vaccine centres (which risk becoming mega clusters)?

Why can’t we bring vaccines to the people at government health clinics, or at the many empty schools and community halls without having to pay rental? Perhaps we can learn how Singapore is doing vaccinations at government-owned community centres and clubs.

And then we had the nasi ganja affair, linked to the boss of a tolled highway...