BP Healthcare Group is the only healthcare provider authorised by the Social Security Organisation to provide free Covid-19 tests for its members. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
MTUC Secretary-General J. Solomon said BP only has 10 diagnostic labs to carry out the screenings which has created a bottleneck in the screening process. He said videos of the chaotic screening process have been posted in social media damaging the credibility of both Socso and the government. “There are more than two million legal migrant workers in the country, with an estimated 800,000 of them in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur that have to depend on just 10 diagnostic BP labs to carry out the Covid-19 screenings. This is unacceptable.
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