Special care must be given to elderly victims and those with underlying health conditions who were affected by the Putra Heights gas pipeline fire, says the Tunku Temenggong of Kedah.
Tan Sri Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz Almarhum Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, chairman of the Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC), shared this concern with reporters after visiting the temporary relief center at the Putra Heights Mosque on Wednesday (April 9)
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Tan Sri Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz Almarhum Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, chairman of the Malaysian Red Crescent (MRC), shared this concern with reporters after visiting the temporary relief center at the Putra Heights Mosque on Wednesday (April 9)
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00:00What's your main priority at the moment and are they satisfied with the help that has been
00:19granted by the various agencies? From what I can gather from the few people that I have met,
00:25there is an overall sense of satisfaction. There is obviously the sense of why did it happen to me
00:34and why did it happen at all. I think there is acute frustration as to why and how. The concern
00:47for the damage injury to their parents is the elderly particularly because many of them are
00:54diabetic and they have these burns which are hard to heal, needs I think special care. The elderly
01:01and I think the the elderly and the needs of the elderly I think needs special care. The younger
01:07generation whom I met here I think are quite resilient. The children I feel are naturally
01:14resilient but I think it's those who are most vulnerable such as the elderly and the OKU,
01:20the special needs persons. It needs to be looked at as individuals not as a grouping as a whole of the
01:29you know 70 families. It needs to be really sliced down to who needs what. Because some of them want to
01:36stay but say they want to start this issue. It's like me I want to stay in my camp. Some of them are
01:42tenants who don't mind moving so they are more flexible. So I think this is a consideration to be
01:51given. Would you like to stay and if so how we have to rebuild your house in this location because this
01:57is the Kampong Asal, a traditional home. Some don't mind moving to a different area and which is also
02:05accommodating is okay. So it's supposed to be tailor-made as far as possible.
02:11Yes, it's not thousands of homes.