Poser Over When Sultan Ismail Hospital Will Reopen

JOHOR BAHARU, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- No one knows when the Sultan Ismail Hospital will reopen after it was closed almost a year ago following a fungus attack.
Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latif Ahmad visited the hospital, Thursday, and the press were invited but he had nothing to say to the reporters and photographers who had waited for more than three hours.
Dr Latif, who emerged from a room where he had apparently listened to a briefing, just gestured at the waiting newsmen and left.
None of the hospital management staff attended to the journalists, who were left wondering why they were invited when it was supposed to have been a closed-door function.
Last September, the hospital was forced to close just two months after it had opened because of a fungus attack that was deemed hazardous to health.
Subsequently, the Works Ministry directed the contractor to undertake the necessary repairs.
In June this year, Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek was reported to have said that the repairs were expected to be completed this month.