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Stock inventory management during pandemic

We also keep stock of our inventory. Dr.Mawaddah Ghazali from the Medical Development
Division has done this part very well. She has been monitoring the stock of all our reagents
really well. By doing so, we would know which hospital laboratories are out of stock of
reagents, who can redistribute the reagents. We can also coordinate testing, because in some
areas, especially in the red zone, there are many testing that need to be done, and some of the
laboratories are overloaded. So, we divert the testing to other laboratories which are less
loaded. We did this for areas in East Malaysia, we make sure there is a transport of specimens
from Sabah and Sarawak to Klang Valley, so that we can help out with our colleagues in East
Malaysia as well. There is a need to have strategic planning for the whole system. We have
to think of how to do better and to be innovative each time.