Trusting our frontliners


TAN Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah never intended to be a celebrity. The Health director-general is the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. He is the person Malaysians trust most at the moment. Which is interesting.

Civil servants have never been known to take credit for anything. The success of their work is attributed to the supposedly reasonably brilliant, hard-working and visionary politicians. They are there to take the beatings when policies fail.

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