Smoking for health

We know that there is an active campaign against smoking. Millions of ringgit has been and will be spent to fight this widespread addiction. This is where the irony begins.

I was going for my breakfast when I approached a stall with a group of people wearing 'KESIHATAN' jackets. They were having breakfast. As i was digging into my nasi lemak, I smelt pungent cigarette smoke. Guess who? All the guys wearing the 'KESIHATAN' jackets were smoking away!! What kind of message will this send? Are they not ashamed to wear the jacket?

This typifies the lackadaisical attitude of health staff in partcular those from the Ministry of Health! This is also probably the reason why implementation of health programmes are less than satisfactory. Ideas from the Director General of Health is not translated into action by the ground staff!

So it appears that the money spent on the 'Tak Nak' campaign is probably going down the drain. Another misadventure for the Government, unfortunately.