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[South East Asia] Migrant workers should not be discriminated in terms of healthcare, says Malaysia’s health chief
As the country battles to contain coronavirus outbreak, new clusters of infections came to light at three detention centres for undocumented migrants in Malaysia.This comes as Malaysia this month arrested more than 2,000 foreigners for not having permits that allow them to be in the country following raids in areas under lockdown. The centres they are detained in are often crowded, with dozens of migrants packed in a single cell, which makes social distancing impossible.“Migrant workers should not be discriminated in terms of healthcare,” Health ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah said, adding that immediate medical attention and decontamination procedures at the centres, which hold thousands of detainees, is imperative."Negative sentiments against detainees must not be amplifie