Kota Kinabalu: The call to have a State Health Minister like the previous Warisan Plus state government of two years is unnecessary and a duplication. Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk Yong Teck Lee (pic) said in fact the Sabah Local Government Ministry has always been responsible for public health under the Public Health Ordinance 1960 and the Local Government Ordinance 1961.
This Ministry actually has the powers to enforce rules and fine offenders who flout the law in containing the spread of infectious diseases, he added.
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