17 more NS trainees warded with fever

Star: MALACCA: Seventeen more trainees at the national service camp here have been admitted to the Malacca Hospital after coming down with high fever.
The number of trainees warded is now 42 while 80 others are isolated at the camp.
Malacca Hospital director Dr Abu Bakar Mohamud said there were 12 new admissions from the camp yesterday and five on Friday.
He said the 25 trainees warded on Thursday were recovering well and that the hospital would not release any trainee until the blood test results were out.
“We are taking precautions until we find out the cause of the ailment,” he said, adding that the test results would be out in one or two days.
Camp commandant Lt Kol V. Pannirselvan Veloo said the camp authorities had briefed all trainees, trainers and the camp operator on safety measures.
Many trainees had expressed their dissatisfaction with the food and drinking water at the camp, he added.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, who visited the camp on Friday, wanted a clean-up of the camp, particularly the canteen, which he described as “very dirty.”
He also said that the camp had been using polluted water from the water storage tank that had been left untouched for more than a month.