Not all Penang Hospital staff receive allowance

Better protection: Frontliners of the Health Ministry preparing to conduct swab tests. RM1bil has been allocated to protect them from infection. — FAIHAN GHANI/ The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Not every staff member of Penang Hospital is getting the extra RM600 allowance a month, but those willing to speak up are glad that their colleagues will get it.

“They deserve it. Those who are handling samples, those actually in the Covid-19 ward, they deserve it,” said a medical officer who only wanted to be known as Ell.