Tragedi buka kotak bom

Oleh Omar Osman  am@hmetro.com.my

SUNGAI PETANI: “Apabila keluar rumah sejurus mendengar letupan kuat, saya terkejut melihat jiran saya terbaring berlumuran darah dengan sebahagian perut terburai dan cebisan dagingnya berselerak.” Demikian kata saksi juga jiran kepada Tan Ching Fang, 48, yang parah akibat satu letupan selepas dia membuka bungkusan dipercayai mengandungi bom buatan sendiri di depan banglo miliknya di Taman Angsana Sari, di sini, semalam. Saksi itu hanya mahu dikenali sebagai Ismail, 40-an, berkata kejadian berlaku jam 8.20 pagi dan mangsa adalah isteri kepada seorang pengusaha kilang mi di sini. Mangsa dikatakan mengambil bungkusan sebesar kotak pensel di tepi pintu pagar rumahnya dan sebaik dia mengangkat bungkusan itu satu letupan kuat berlaku.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/6/24/nation/11541705&sec=nation    Sunday June 24, 2012

Parcel bomb victim dies

SUNGAI PETANI: The 49-year-old housewife who fell victim to a parcel bomb blast in Taman Angsana Sari has succumbed to her injuries at the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital here. Tan Chin Fang (pic) who lost both hands and suffered severe abdominal injuries in the explosion, was rushed into surgery on Friday morning but died at 9.30am yesterday. Her husband Ng Cheng Siang, 49, said his wife was unconscious after she was pushed into the operation room on Friday. “When she was taken to hospital right after the blast, she complained of severe pain in the belly. When she was transferred to the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital, she was already very weak,” he said.  Recalling the incident, Ng said he was upstairs in their double-storey house when he heard an explosion at 8.20am. When he rushed out, he saw his wife screaming in pain and his 11-year-old nephew, Chua Shang Hang, crying next to her. Their 16-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were at home during the incident. They have two other daughters one aged 18, who was away at college, and a 17-year-old who was at a tuition class. Ng, who has been living in Taman Angsana Sari for more than 10 years, said he received a call on Thursday night from a man who said that “something interesting” would be sent to his house. He said early the next morning before his wife left for the market, he went out to check but did not find anything amiss. “My wife had just returned from the market with her mother and our nephew when she noticed the parcel at the front gate. “Once she picked it up, it exploded,” he said. He said the boy, who stood a distance away from his wife, was hit by debris from the parcel bomb. Ng, who owns a noodle factory at the Angsana Sari Light Industrial Area, said this was the second attempt made against him since he started running the noodle factory. The first was in November last year when a man, believed to be a business rival, punched him. He lodged a police report after the first incident. “This time, I lost my wife. I pray that police will catch the culprit and bring him to justice,” he said. Ng said his family was still in shock over the incident. The cremation will be done on Wednesday. Kedah CID chief Asst Comm Zakaria Ahmad said police were investigating the case under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. He said a 32-year-old man who was arrested on Friday to facilitate investigations had been remanded for a week since yesterday.

 

 

Pusat ijazah palsu ditutup

Pusat ijazah palsu ditutup

Universiti Harvey, Cannington Brook , Rockhampton tak wujud!!!

= Tajuk Berita Harian pada 24 Julai  2012 dilapor oleh Sophia Ahmad.

Putrajaya: Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi semalam mengesahkan ijazah dari sebuah pusat pendidikan swasta di Subang Jaya yang didakwa dikeluarkan tiga universiti luar negara adalah palsu. Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Prof Dr Rujhan Mustafa, yang ditemui semalam, berkata Universiti Rockhampton dan Universiti Harvey International di Amerika Syarikat (AS) dan Universiti Cannington Brook di United Kingdom (UK) tidak wujud.

Manakala tajuk BH pada 23 Julai  2012  = Wartawan BH bongkar kegiatan jual ijazah!!! Polis menahan dua individu termasuk dalang syarikat yang menjual ijazah palsu tiga universiti luar negara selepas menyerbu sebuah premis di Subang Jaya, petang semalam.

mangsa simbah asid

Dua lagi wanita jadi mangsa simbah asid

 

Seorang wanita dan seorang gadis menjadi mangsa simbahan asid oleh dua lelaki ketika menunggu bas di Batu 16, Rawang, dekat Kuala Lumpur petang semalam. Ketua Polis Daerah Gombak ACP Abdul Rahim Abdullah berkata dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 7 petang itu, S.Rani, 46, dan Nuraqilah Osman, 16, telah disimbah asid oleh seorang daripada suspek yang berjalan kaki. Beliau berkata suspek telah meragut rantai leher Rani sebelum melarikan diri ke kawasan berhampiran. "Semasa melarikan diri, seorang daripada suspek itu menyimbah cecair dipercayai asid ke arah wanita itu yang turut mengenai mangsa kedua menyebabkan belakang badannya melecur," katanya dalam satu sistem pesanan ringkas malam tadi. Abdul Rahim berkata Nuraqilah menerima rawatan sebagai pesakit luar di Hospital Selayang manakala Rani, yang cedera di muka, leher, tangan serta dada, masih dirawat di hospital sama. "Mangsa tidak dapat mengecam identiti kedua-dua suspek kerana semasa kejadian, keadaan gelap dan perlakuan suspek terlalu pantas," katanya sambil menambah kes itu disiasat mengikut Seksyen 395/397 Kanun Keseksaan.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/193345 - Bernama

 

 

Mangsa simbah asid trauma keluar rumah

KUALA LUMPUR 9 Mei - Meskipun hanya mengalami kecederaan ringan di bahagian mata akibat disimbah cecair jenis 'thinner' oleh seorang lelaki, seorang ibu yang kini sarat mengandung trauma untuk keluar rumah seorang diri. Mangsa yang hanya ingin dikenali sebagai Yati, 30, masih tidak dapat melupakan kejadian bagaimana suspek yang menaiki motosikal tiba-tiba muncul dari arah belakang dan menyimbah cecair itu mengenai muka dan badannya. Kejadian itu, menurut Yati, berlaku di hadapan sebuah vila yang disewa keluarganya untuk menjalankan aktiviti riadah di Persiaran Titiwangsa di sini, pada pukul 3 petang, Sabtu lalu. "Ketika itu, semua ahli keluarga berkumpul di dalam rumah. Saya keluar sekejap ke tempat letak kereta untuk mengambil lampin pakai buang anak saya. "Sebaik sahaja saya membuka pintu kereta, datang seorang lelaki bermotosikal dari belakang dan menyimbah cecair itu menyebabkan muka dan badan saya basah. "Saya kini takut untuk keluar rumah kerana masih terbayang kehadiran lelaki itu," katanya ketika ditemui di rumahnya di Ampang, hari ini. Yati ialah salah seorang mangsa simbahan cecair dipercayai asid jenis 'thinner' dan 'alkali' yang dilaporkan berlaku di ibu negara sejak kebelakangan ini. Polis sedang mengesan dua lelaki bermotosikal yang dipercayai menyasarkan golongan wanita di daerah Dang Wangi, Sentul dan Brickfields sebagai mangsa simbahan cecair itu. Yati memberitahu, simbahan cecair tersebut mengenai bahagian matanya dan amat memedihkan sehingga tidak dapat membukanya.

"Saya menjerit meminta tolong dan segera masuk ke dalam rumah untuk mendapatkan bantuan," katanya. Suaminya yang terkejut melihat keadaannya segera keluar rumah untuk menangkap suspek, bagaimanapun lelaki itu sempat menghilangkan diri. Katanya, dia dihantar ke Pusat Rawatan Pusrawi sebelum dirujuk ke Hospital Kuala Lumpur untuk rawatan lanjut

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2011&dt=0510&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Jenayah&pg=je_02.htm

 

Minda: Tanggung derita tanpa pembelaan

Oleh Asmizan Mohd Mohd Samiran
mizan@hmetro.com.my

TATKALA terpandang gambar mangsa simbahan asid, Nor Ain Abdul Aziz, 18, baru-baru ini, penulis tertanya-tanya bagaimana masa depannya. Dalam keadaan buta dan cacat bagaimana remaja itu mendepani usia remajanya.  Siapa Nor Ain? Barangkali ada yang masih ingat dengan tragedi menimpa remaja itu pada Ogos 2009. Anak kampung dari Kampung Baru Mutiara, Aring, Gua Musang yang ketika itu berusia 15 tahun menjadi mangsa kerakusan bapa tirinya di sebuah kebun di Felda Aring Enam, tidak jauh dari rumahnya.

Dia bukan saja menjadi mangsa simbahan asid cuka getah, tetapi turut dirogol sebelum berjalan keluar dari kebun berkenaan sejauh 100 meter bagi mendapat pertolongan, manakala bapa tirinya membunuh diri dengan meminum cuka getah berkenaan. Dalam laporan akhbar ini Mac lalu, remaja itu bagaikan berputus asa apabila enggan meneruskan usaha memulihkan wajahnya dengan melakukan pembedahan plastik susulan di Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) Kubang Kerian.

Menurutnya, dia malu keluar rumah dan lebih rela bersendirian tanpa bergaul dengan orang lain. “Bagaimanapun, saya tetap tabah menghadapi ujian Allah SWT walaupun hidup terasing dengan rakan sekampung. Sebelum ini kehidupan saya ceria bersama mereka, namun kini saya perlu reda dengan apa yang berlaku pada diri saya,” katanya.
Nor Ain berkata, dia menyimpan impian belajar di sekolah pondok bagi mendalami ilmu agama tetapi apabila memikirkan keadaan dirinya yang cacat, dia melupakan terus impian itu. “Dalam keadaan saya yang cacat dan buta, saya tidak mahu menyusahkan orang lain. Jika saya belajar di sekolah pondok, sudah semestinya saya memerlukan bantuan orang lain seperti memimpin saya berjalan,” katanya.

Berdasarkan luahan remaja itu, jelas dia berdepan masa depan tidak menentu. Ketika ini dia masih mempunyai seorang ibu, Nor Azizah Jusoh, 36, dan tiga adik yang masih bersekolah, tetapi bagaimana jika ditakdirkan dia tinggal sebatang kara pada masa akan datang?

Lantas, penulis teringat kisah seorang lagi mangsa simbahan asid, Azri Abdullah, 44, yang berasal dari Pulau Pinang. Pemuda ini juga menjadi mangsa perbuatan kejam ahli keluarga sendiri iaitu adiknya pada Disember 2009. Lebih menyedihkan dalam keadaan menderita akibat cedera parah diseluruh anggota badan, dia disisihkan keluarga sehingga terpaksa bergantung hidup dengan rakan. Bagaimana pengakhiran kisah Mohd Azri? Pastinya dia menderita dan terus menderita.

Kisah Nor Ain dan Azri hanyalah sebahagian kisah derita yang ditanggung mangsa simbahan asid. Ada ramai lagi penduduk di negara ini menerima nasib sama seperti mereka. Masih ingat kepada Tuan Azman Tuan Ludin, 39, dari Tanah Merah, Kelantan? Bekas tentera ini juga menjadi mangsa simbahan asid, namun lebih tragis, ia dilakukan isterinya sendiri selepas bertengkar gara-gara dia mahu kahwin lagi.
Mohd Hafizuddin Johari, 21, juga menjadi mangsa simbahan asid di Kangar, Perlis pada September tahun lalu selepas ada yang dengki kerana dia menjalin hubungan dengan seorang pondan, Natasya.

Nama seperti Mohd Raffie Abdul Latiff, 28, (mangsa simbahan asid ketika sedang menunggu rakannya berhampiran tandas awam di Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur pada September tahun lalu), Mahyuddin Abdullah, 48, (mangsa simbahan asid oleh isteri di Kampung Kok Lanas, Kota Bharu, Disember tahun lalu), Nurul Dahyatul Fazlinda Mat Haizan, 10, (mangsa simbahan asid bapa sendiri di Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu pada 15 Ogos 2010) dan adik-beradik, Syafiq Haikal Mat Safa Zaidi, 14, dan Syaffiy Aiman, 11, (mangsa simbah asid oleh jiran sendiri di Felda Jengka 9, Kuala Krau, Pahang pada Julai 2011) juga pernah terpampang di media gara-gara cedera parah selepas menjadi mangsa simbahan asid.

Justeru, jika dihitung jumlah mangsa simbahan asid, sepatutnya perlu ada persatuan atau yayasan yang mampu membela nasib golongan berkenaan. Ini kerana, mereka bukan hanya perlu dibantu untuk seketika, tetapi untuk selama-lamanya. Dalam keadaan cacat dan sentiasa dibayangi peristiwa hitam yang pernah dilalui, pastinya mereka perlukan sokongan dan bantuan, bukan saja daripada segi moral tetapi juga kewangan. Di Malaysia, kita mempunyai yayasan khusus untuk pesakit Aids, kanser dan buah pinggang, justeru mengapa tidak diwujudkan persatuan atau yayasan untuk membela nasib mangsa simbahan asid. Penubuhan persatuan atau yayasan khusus untuk mangsa simbahan asid sudah lama di lakukan di negara luar. Di Bangladesh misalnya, ada Yayasan Mangsa Asid (ASF) yang melakukan pemantauan khusus kepada mangsa simbahan Asid.

Selepas penubuhan ASF, ditubuhkan pada 1999, jumlah serangan asid mula menurun terutama apabila kerajaan menguatkuasakan undang-undang tegas bagi menangani isu berkenaan termasuk tertuduh boleh dihukum mati jika didapati bersalah di mahkamah.

Pada 1999, ketika ASF ditubuhkan, kira-kira 500 kes direkodkan setiap tahun di negara itu tetapi kini jumlah itu menurun sehingga kurang daripada 100 setahun. Justeru, sudah sampai masanya mangsa simbahan asid di negara ini mendapat pembelaan. Barangkali, bagi mangsa yang sudah putus asa boleh ditempatkan di satu tempat yang mampu memberi penjagaan sempurna dan mungkin memberi pendidikan kemahiran mengikut keperluan mereka. Mungkin tempat itu boleh mengambil contoh Pusat Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti yang banyak diwujudkan di negara ini. Berikan mereka motivasi semangat dan harapan nyata, menjadikan sekurang-kurangnya, mangsa simbahan asid tidak berasa putus asa dan terus rendah diri. Seperkara lagi mengenai isu asid, kita sebelum ini pernah diberi bayangan bahawa sesuatu bakal dilakukan bagi membanteras kejadian serangan asid. Ini berikutan, masyarakat digemparkan dengan kes serangan asid oleh individu tidak dikenali di sekitar Kuala Lumpur dan Selangor, yang menyasarkan orang awam terutama wanita sehingga puluhan orang awam menjadi mangsa.

Beberapa cadangan diberikan, antaranya oleh Naib Pengerusi Yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Malaysia (MCPF), Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye bahawa kerajaan perlu mengkaji semula undang-undang penjualan asid, akta dan bentuk hukuman terhadap pesalah. Menurutnya, setiap urus niaga asid perlu direkodkan iaitu pembeli menyertakan nombor kad pengenalan dan alamat kediaman atau premisnya dan dia harus bertanggungjawab memastikan bahan cecair itu tidak disalahgunakan pihak lain. “Asid bahan yang digunakan banyak pihak, terutama di kilang, proses pembuatan, sektor perladangan mahupun sebagai bahan mencuci kekotoran. Bahan ini tidak sepatutnya disalahgunakan sebagai alat membalas dendam, mencedera, mencacat dan membutakan orang lain.

“Oleh itu, pembeli harus bertanggungjawab di atas setiap pembelian dilakukan dengan menyimpannya di tempat selamat dan sukar diceroboh orang lain,” katanya. Bagaimanapun, sehingga kini, tiada sebarang perkembangan usaha untuk menyelesaikan isu asid itu. Peningkatan jumlah mangsa yang menderita akibat disimbah asid dan kenaikan mendadak kes serangan asid seharusnya diambil iktibar.

Selagi tiada penguatkuasaan penjualan asid termasuklah cuka getah, bukan lagi kejutan apabila selepas ini akan muncul lebih ramai mangsa yang buta dan cacat angkara asid.

Rujukan Kami  :

http://www.hmetro.com.my/myMetro/articles/Minda_Tanggungderitatanpapembelaan/Article/index_html

http://muzir.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/nurin-jazlin-sharlinie-nurul-nadirah-dan-kita/

https://takusahrisau.wordpress.com/tag/sayangilah-kanak-kanak/

Track Down The Serial Acid Splasher In KL: 7 Things You Can Do Right Now!

Posted by Eric On 5/11/2011

Sounds like I am a barbarian huh? But I am sure that's the exact emotion the victims and their families have right now! I wonder how come this crazy man can be roaming free on our streets just like that? What have our corrupt police been doing besides lustfully raiding those vice dens and massage parlous to catch prostitutes in the act? Can't PDRM channel more of our police force to nab this cold-blooded criminal? A serial acid splasher is terrorizing the lives of people in KL! Damn it! All of us especially those residing in KL should be more careful!

 

Beware of the serial acid splasher in KL!

Last week another 5 innocent victims have been hurt by the acid thrown at them. So far 20 victims have been injured. All are women and girls except a male school teacher in 8 different incidents over the past 2 months! These crazy attacks happens right in the heart of KL. I wonder where are the cops? Maybe they are having their long tea break at some mamak stalls! Aren't our most advanced city is equipped with high resolution surveillance cameras? Or those money has been used to buy cheap 1.0 MP cameras and the rest has been channeled into someone's else pocket? Ok sorry...it's not the time to play the blame game.

We must track down this animal as soon as possible. One of the latest victims is a one-year-old helpless baby. See how insane this serial acid splasher is? Then another victim who was attacked last Friday suffered serious burns which could cause her to lose her eye. People lives are at risk here. 20 victims' future has been affected by this animal! All of us should work together to track down this animal before more innocent people are being harmed!

1. March 2 - Eight Year 4 and Year 6 pupils and a teacher of SK Bukit Bandaraya in Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar were splashed with a liquid by a motorcyclist clad in black.

2. March 24 - Two marketing executives were splashed with acid as they were walking along Jalan Tun Sambanthan at 5.30pm.

3. March 25 - A 25-year-old history teacher, on the way to school, was attacked near the back gate of a school in Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad at 7am.

4. March 26 - A Frenchman and his female companion became the 13th and 14th victims of a corrosive liquid-splashing attack by a motorcycle duo in Jalan Conlay about 3pm.

5. April 2 - In Jalan Mantin, Negri Sembilan, a 27-year-old woman and her 18-year-old niece were attacked by two men on a motorcycle 9pm.

6. May 6 - Two women were splashed with acid when a motorcyclist attacked them from behind in Jalan Pudu Lama at 9pm.

7. May 6 - Thirty minutes later, a lawyer in her 30s, was attacked near a parking lot in front of The Mall shopping centre in Jalan Putra.

8. May 7 - A woman and her one-year-old baby were standing in her house compound in Persiaran Titiwangsa when the splasher rode by and threw the liquid at them at 3pm

All of us must be on our toes from now onwards. We must work hand-in-hand to track down this animal. This serial acid splasher is of dark complexion and he rides either a Honda EX5 or Yamaha bike with a basket in front. So you should be more careful when you see these 2 types of bike approaching you. If you are a woman, a girl....or well just about anyone who is staying in KL-you might want to follow the following guidelines here:

Always walk facing against the traffic: So that the serial acid splasher will not attack you from the back. Besides that by walking against the traffic you will have a better chance of avoiding anyone who looks suspicious to you.

Avoid walking by the side of the road: If possible don't walk at the side of the road at all if it is unnecessary. You will be exposed and make yourself easy target for this serial acid splasher. Walk near the building where there are crowded people.

Always bring along an umbrella: This might sound crazy...but I suggest that you bring along a huge umbrella with you. So whenever you see someone suspicious approaching you, immediately open that umbrella to shield yourself from any possible attack. Yes! Just open it even though it is not raining. Best of all use the umbrella all the time. Moreover your umbrella can be a potent weapon for you to defend yourself in dangerous situations.

Inform the police of any suspicious motorcyclist: Banking on our lazy and inefficient Malaysian police alone is not enough. So the moment you see anyone riding a bike with dark complexion and looks suspicious...immediately take down the number plate and inform the police to come over as soon as possible. Who knows? Your information might lead to the nabbing of this serial acid splasher!

Put on more clothes: I know the weather is scorching hot right now. But putting on an extra jacket or vest might buy you some time to escape the devastating acid if *touch wood* you are being splashed!

Don't go out at all: No matter where you go, try not to walk...at all. If possible don't even go out if you don't have any transport, preferably car. It doesn't matter if the sundry shop is only 50 metres away from your home...you don't want to risk being splashed with acid right? So ask your parents, husband or other family members to ferry you around if you can.

Use as much water as possible: Water is the best remedy to counter the corrosive acid. The moment someone is being splashed with acid (either it is you or other victims), pour as much water as possible onto the affected body parts especially the eyes. Keep on pouring a large amount of water to dilute the acid. Keep on doing this until the acid has been diluted and washed away. So I suggest all of us to bring a water bottle all the time.

I really, really hope there will be no other innocent people being splashed with this corrosive liquid again. I am sure our police force will do justice to the lives that have been affected by this serial acid splasher in KL! If you happen to meet this heartless, cowardly serial acid splasher in his act, don't hesitate to alert the police or nab him. Remember if we don't do anything, this could happen to our beloved ones. We must track him down and kill him! Ok...sounds like I am a savage but I am sure you get what I mean! We Malaysians must work hand-in-hand to bring down this serial acid splasher in KL. He is an animal!

Lets spread this - and all do our part to track down this criminal!!!

-Info terbaru yg dgr ialah pihak pelaku t'babit sedang m'sasarkan golongan wanita muda di kawasan LRT and car park terutamanya di kawasan Setapak, Wangsa Maju & Gombak-

 

 

The mystery ‘acid man’ returns

This time, in the heart of the city — as if taunting cops to catch him!

Andrew Sagayam  Monday, May 9th, 2011 10:51:00

KUALA LUMPUR: The gutless ‘acid splasher’ who has injured 20 victims — all women and girls except a male school teacher — in eight incidents over the past two months has taken his cowardly attacks right into the heart of the city.

This could be an indication that a lack of information on him has spurred him to go on a splashing spree, say police
sources.

­The sources said the prowler might also be challenging the police to catch him from attacking victims with
substances that caused various degrees of burns to the recipients.

The vile, unabated ‘acid splashing’ binges have raised alarm bells over the increasing brazenness of the motorcycle-
riding criminal — described as a “madman” by the police.

It is believed the man, who targets females, is no longer content with carrying out attacks in outlying areas.

In the latest cases, he trained his sights on the city centre by first attacking his female victims on Friday along the
perennially busy Jalan Pudu Lama and Jalan Putra.

­The next day, the coward harmed a woman carrying a one-year-old child in Persiaran Titiwangsa.

The police, who have formed a task force to track down the beast, want the help of the public.

So far, the only information police have on the man is that he is of dark complexion and rides a Honda EX5 motorcycle
with a carrier in front.

Sentul police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan said they needed the help of the public as their ‘eyes and ears’ to help catch
the culprit.

“Surely, someone must have witnessed these attacks,” he told The Malay Mail.

“Even with increased police presence, the suspect continues to attack people. Previously, he only operated in the
outskirts but he appears to have begun targeting people within the city centre.

“We are concerned about this and urge those with any information on this person to assist us.”

In Friday’s incident, two women were strolling along Jalan Pudu Lama at 9pm after having dinner when they were
pounced on by the suspect.

Approaching them from behind, he splashed a bottle of liquid on them before making his getaway amidst busy traffic.

­The women, suffering from burns caused by the substance, ran into a nearby building to wash off the liquid. An
employee in the building went to their aid and sent them to the nearby Tung Shin Hospital .

One of the women was given outpatient treatment while the other, identi‑ffed only as Nor Azia, was transferred to the
Kuala Lumpur Hospital where she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

Nor Azia’s friends have appealed to the police to catch the suspect before he hurts any more people.

Mother and child latest cases

Barely 30 minutes after the first incident, the suspect struck again, this time at a parking lot in front of The Mall
shopping centre in Jalan Putra.

His third victim of the day, a female lawyer in her 30s, sustained minor burns and was given outpatient treatment at a
nearby hospital.

City police chief Datuk Ku Chin Wah said police had sent samples of the liquid to the Chemistry Department and were
awaiting the results.

The suspect's crime spree continued on Saturday, this time, choosing a woman carrying a year-old child in Persiaran
Titiwangsa as his latest victims.

The victim, in her 30s, was in her house compound around 3pm when the suspect rode by and threw the liquid over
the gate before speeding off.

Both mother and child were rushed to the KL Hospital for treatment as the liquid had entered their eyes.

Too many have been hurt, says friend of new acid attack victim

KUALA LUMPUR : A friend of one of the acid splasher's victims has issued an impassioned plea to the police to catch
the "madman".

"Please help catch this crazy person who hurt my friend," said a friend of Nor Azia, the 25-year-old who was one of two
women injured by the acid splasher in Jalan Pudu Lama on Friday.

Met at Hospital Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the friend, who was waiting for news on Nor Azia outside the Intensive Care
Unit, said they were left­ shaken by the incident.

"We want the police to catch him. So many people have been hurt, we don't want another victim to turn up elsewhere,"
she said.

She said Nor Azia's le­ft eye region was damaged in the attack. Doctors had told Nor Azia's family that she would be
at the ICU for a few more days.

"She is still recovering from the injuries. We are praying that the injuries won't affect her eyesight," she said.

Nor Azia su‑ffered five per cent burns to the face, neck and hands.

Another friend, who said she was Nor Azia's colleague, said they were told the acid splasher caught both women
unawares.

"We were told by Nor Azia's family the two were walking towards a bank to use the ATM when the motorcyclist
attacked them from behind.

"They weren't able to get a good look at him a­fter the incident as he quickly sped off," she said.

Nor Azia's father, identified only as Mohd Salleh, refused to comment on the incident or to reveal the condition of his
daughter.

"I cannot talk about it. I have nothing to say," he said, adding he was advised by the police not to talk to the Press.

Where the 'splasher' struck

. March 2 - Eight Year 4 and Year 6 pupils and a teacher of SK Bukit Bandaraya in Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar were
splashed with a liquid by a motorcyclist clad in black.

2. March 24 - Two marketing executives were splashed with acid as they were walking along Jalan Tun Sambanthan at 5.30pm.

3. March 25 - A 25-year-old history teacher, on the way to school, was attacked near the back gate of a school in Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad at 7am.

4. March 26 - A Frenchman and his female companion became the 13th and 14th victims of a corrosive liquid- splashing attack by a motorcycle duo in Jalan Conlay about 3pm.

5. April 2 - In Jalan Mantin, Negri Sembilan, a 27-year-old woman and her 18-year-old niece were attacked by two men on a motorcycle 9pm.

6. May 6 - Two women were splashed with acid when a motorcyclist attacked them from behind in Jalan Pudu Lama at 9pm.

7. May 6 - Thirty minutes later, a lawyer in her 30s, was attacked near a parking lot in front of The Mall shopping centre in Jalan Putra.

8. May 7 - A woman and her one-year-old baby were standing in her house compound in Persiaran Titiwangsa when the splasher rode by and threw the liquid at them at 3pm

 

Lelaki berjaga malam demi Bola EURO 2012 mati

Lelaki berjaga malam demi Bola EURO 2012 mati

BEIJING: Gara-gara menonton perlawanan bola sepak Euro 2012 secara melampau, seorang lelaki mati selepas berjaga berterusan selama 11 malam, lapor media semalam. Penyokong England dan Perancis, Jiang Xiaoshan, menahan dirinya daripada terlelap bagi mengelak terlepas aksi setiap perlawanan bola sepak yang berlangsung ketika ini. Menurut media, Jiang mati akibat letih melampau. Disebabkan perbezaan masa, Jiang dilaporkan berjaga setiap malam bersama rakan-rakan sebelum pergi bekerja keesokan hari. Selepas perlawanan Ireland menentang Itali, Sina.com melaporkan, Jiang pulang ke rumahnya di Changsha kira-kira jam 5 pagi. “Dia kemudian mandi, tertidur dan tidak membuka matanya langsung selepas itu,” lapor Sina.com. Rakan Jiang berkata, kematian itu mengejutkan kerana setahu mereka, Jiang “agak sihat” dan aktif bermain bola sepak mewakili universitinya beberapa tahun lalu. Namun, sumber lain berkata, kesan pengambilan alkohol dan rokok, bercampur faktor keletihan kerana berjaga menyebabkan sistem imunisasi Jiang lemah. - TS

 

sumber : harian Metro

Kanak kanak Mati Awal

Kids Dying Young: My Two Lessons to 5th Graders of LAUSD

At my kids school, a lot of their friends don't speak English, don't get to indulge in a breakfast or a lunch packed by Mom and don't get to enjoy having both parents at home. Plus, far too many of them are drugged by psychiatrists. That's the reality of living in the city. Like other "upper-income" parents, I could find a private school that shields Blair and Lily from the harsh realities of life. But that would be a huge disservice.

Public school is a sliver of reality that kids need. Without it, young, impressionable minds might adopt a herd mentality - thinking that everyone shares the same color of skin, religion, organic lunches, and American Girl dolls. That's oppressive and teaches kids how to be pussies. Real life sharpens kids senses, forcing them to learn who they are in the face of inequality and injustice. The sooner they learn it the better cause it proves that life's harsh realities don't dictate who you are or what you are capable of, only you do. So never give up.

That was my first lesson to 5th graders of LAUSD as The People's Chemist, the PG version. The second lesson was that "sugar is killing you." And if you want to grow up "to be you," you need to learn how to avoid "deadly sugars" being tossed into your food by the fistful. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that 1 in 3 children born near the year 2000 would suffer from Type II diabetes, which would steal 11 to 20 years from their lifespan!

This needs to stop now! My lesson has been compiled into a blog so that you can share this immediate danger far and wide! Learn it. Live by it. Help other kids avoid the onslaught!

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Beware signals from your lover

By P. ARUNA and AUSTIN CAMOENS Sunday June 24, 2012 newsdesk@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: In light of recent reports of crimes of passion, experts have warned people to look out for specific behavioural indicators in their partners to avoid becoming victims. “For men, it is usually those who have quick tempers and resort to physical abuse during arguments,” said Universiti Sains Malaysia criminologist and psychologist Dr Geshina Ayu Mat Saat.

“Women tend to be more manipulative. They threaten to kill themselves, run away, or claim that they are pregnant to force their partners to stay with them,” she said. In most instances, she said, the attacker had the “if I can't have you, then no one else can” mentality. “The perpetrator may attack his or her partner based on mere suspicion of infidelity without even having any proof,” she said. She added that attackers often used love as a tool to manipulate and assert dominance over their partners.

On Friday, a 22-year-old woman was torched at a flat she shared with her boyfriend in Cheras after what appeared to be a lovers' quarrel. Last month, a woman was allegedly stabbed to death by her fiance who later attempted suicide by consuming poison. Just a day earlier, a 60-year-old cook repeatedly stabbed his 23-year-old girlfriend when she wanted to end their six-year relationship.

Neuro-psychologist Dr Nivashinie Mohan cautioned that even people without a history of aggressive behaviour could turn violent due to intense feelings of jealousy or hate. “In a moment of intense emotion, they may react in ways which they normally would not,” said Dr Nivashinie, who had encountered victims who had their cars vandalised by their loved ones. “Severe biting is another form of extreme behaviour which involves biting their partners until they bleed or scratch them badly,” she said.

Acknowledging that crimes of passion were becoming common, MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong said he had received many cases of men seeking to be reunited with their wives after physically harming them in fits of rage. “There are men who are so blinded by rage that they stab their wives just because they suspect she is having an affair. “They later find out they are wrong and seek forgiveness,” he said. However, Chong believed that many people used the term “crime of passion” as a mere excuse.

“In crimes of passion, the perpetrator grabs a knife or any object that is close to him at that moment to attack the victim,” he said. “If he leaves the house, buys kerosene and returns to set the woman on fire, I don't believe it can be considered a crime of passion,” he said.

 

Adik Safiah Humaira

Adik Safiah Humaira

Kanak-kanak malang ini meninggal dunia akibat dihentak berulang-kali di kepala dengan tukul besi. Akibatnya, tempurung kepala dua orang kanak-kanak ini retak teruk. Gambar di bawah menunjukkan hasil post-mortem yang dibuat oleh pakar forensik untuk mendapatkan bukti yang kukuh bahawa mangsa telah dibunuh dengan menggunakan tukul besi. (biasanya ditulis dengan alat yang tumpul). Kejadian ini berlaku di negara Barat. Di Malaysia juga sama, penderaan kepada kanak-kanak semakin menjadi-jadi. Baru-baru ini pembunuh Adik Safiah Humaira telah dihukum gantung oleh mahkamah. Pembunuh yang tidak berhati perut ini merupakan kekasih kepada ibu Adik Safiah. Pembunuh ini adalah Mohd Fazli Azri Jamil, 28. Mangsa telah dipijak berkali-kali diatas perut dengan menggunakan kasut bola. Bayangkan dengan tenaga lelaki dewasa ini memijak perut kanak-kanak naïf itu. Sangat menyedihkan.. Walaubagaimanapun, pembunuh Adik Nurin Jazlin masih lagi belum ditangkap. Penulis harap suatu hari nanti Allah swt tunjukkan kepada pihak berkuasa ‘jalan’ untuk menangkap lelaki yang membunuh adik Nurin Jazlin. InsyaAllah.. Kepada pembaca semua, bersama-samalah kita mencintai dan menyayangi kanak-kanak. Adalah lebih berharga kita menyayangi kanak-kanak berbanding kita menyayangi wang ringgit.

Rujukan Kami https://takusahrisau.wordpress.com/tag/sayangilah-kanak-kanak/

 

 

Vaccine Survival Guide

Vaccine Survival Guide

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type of immunity - for "at-risk" individuals. But remember, it's only a hypothesis.

When outbreaks arise among children, health officials are quick to state that it's due to a breakdown in 'herd immunity.' Doctors parrot it too, without even looking at the research. They say it's happening more often nationwide as states make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccinations. Like argumentative apes, pro-vaccine parents and their physicians start pounding their chest in favour of such statements. They use
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Malarial vaccine from edible algae

Potential malarial vaccine produced from edible algae

http://zeenews.india.com/news/health/exclusive/potential-malarial-vaccine-produced-from-algae_17013.html

 

Washington: Biologists have successfully engineered algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria. Initial proof-of-principle experiments suggest that such a vaccine could prevent malaria transmission. The achievement could pave the way for the development of an inexpensive way to protect billions of people from one of the world’s most prevalent and debilitating diseases.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by infection with protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium. It affects more than 225 million people worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, resulting in fever, headaches and in severe cases coma and death. While a variety of often costly anti-malarial medications are available to travellers in those regions to protect against infections, a vaccine offering a high level of protection from the disease does not yet exist.

The new development resulted from an unusual interdisciplinary collaboration between two groups of biologists at University of California, San Diego—one from the Division of Biological Sciences and San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, which had been engineering algae to produce bio-products and biofuels, and another from the Center for Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine that is working to develop ways to diagnose, prevent and treat malaria.

Part of the difficulty in creating a vaccine against malaria is that it requires a system that can produce complex, three-dimensional proteins that resemble those made by the parasite, thus eliciting antibodies that disrupt malaria transmission. Most vaccines created by engineered bacteria are relatively simple proteins that stimulate the body’s immune system to produce antibodies against bacterial invaders. More complex proteins can be produced, but this requires an expensive process using mammalian cell cultures, and the proteins those cells produce are coated with sugars due to a chemical process called glycosylation.

“Malaria is caused by a parasite that makes complex proteins, but for whatever reason this parasite doesn’t put sugars on those proteins,” said Stephen Mayfield, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

 

“If you have a protein covered with sugars and you inject it into somebody as a vaccine, the tendency is to make antibodies against the sugars, not the amino acid backbone of the protein from the invading organism you want to inhibit. Researchers have made vaccines without these sugars in bacteria and then tried to refold them into the correct three-dimensional configuration, but that’s an expensive proposition and it doesn’t work very well,” he stated. Instead, the biologists looked to produce their proteins with the help of an edible green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, used widely in research laboratories as a genetic model organism, much like the fruit fly Drosophila and the bacterium E. coli. Two years ago, a UC San Diego team of biologists headed by Mayfield, who is also the director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, a research consortium seeking to develop transportation fuels from algae, published a landmark study demonstrating that many complex human therapeutic proteins, such as monoclonal antibodies and growth hormones, could be produced by Chlamydomonas. That got James Gregory, a postdoctoral researcher in Mayfield’s laboratory, wondering if a complex protein to protect against the malarial parasite could also be produced by Chlamydomonas. Two billion people live in regions where malaria is present, making the delivery of a malarial vaccine a costly and logistically difficult proposition, especially when that vaccine is expensive to produce.

So the UC San Diego biologists set out to determine if this alga, an organism that can produce complex proteins very cheaply, could produce malaria proteins that would inhibit infections from malaria.

“It’s too costly to vaccinate two billion people using current technologies.
Realistically, the only way a malaria vaccine will ever be used is if it can be produced at a fraction of the cost of current vaccines. Algae have this potential because you can grow algae any place on the planet in ponds or even in bathtubs,” explained Mayfield. Collaborating with Joseph Vinetz, a professor of medicine at UC San Diego and a leading expert in tropical diseases who has been working on developing vaccines against malaria, the researchers showed that the proteins produced by the algae, when injected into laboratory mice, made antibodies that blocked malaria transmission from mosquitoes. “It’s hard to say if these proteins are perfect, but the antibodies to our algae-produced protein recognize the native proteins in malaria and, inside the mosquito, block the development of the malaria parasite so that the mosquito can’t transmit the disease,” said Gregory.

The scientists, who filed a patent application on their discovery, said the next steps are to see if these algae proteins work to protect humans from malaria and then to determine if they can modify the proteins to elicit the same antibody response when the algae are eaten rather than injected.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120516174437.htm

Biologists Produce Potential Malarial Vaccine from Algae

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that could pave the way for the development of an inexpensive way to protect billions of people from one of the world's most prevalent and debilitating diseases. Initial proof-of-principle experiments suggest that such a vaccine could prevent malaria transmission.

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by infection with protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium. It affects more than 225 million people worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, resulting in fever, headaches and in severe cases coma and death. While a variety of often costly antimalarial medications are available to travelers in those regions to protect against infections, a vaccine offering a high level of protection from the disease does not yet exist.

The use of algae to produce malaria proteins that elicited antibodies against Plasmodium falciparum in laboratory mice and prevented malaria transmission was published May 16 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE. The development resulted from an unusual interdisciplinary collaboration between two groups of biologists at UC San Diego -- one from the Division of Biological Sciences and San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, which had been engineering algae to produce bio-products and biofuels, and another from the Center for Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine that is working to develop ways to diagnose, prevent and treat malaria.

Part of the difficulty in creating a vaccine against malaria is that it requires a system that can produce complex, three-dimensional proteins that resemble those made by the parasite, thus eliciting antibodies that disrupt malaria transmission. Most vaccines created by engineered bacteria are relatively simple proteins that stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies against bacterial invaders. More complex proteins can be produced, but this requires an expensive process using mammalian cell cultures, and the proteins those cells produce are coated with sugars due to a chemical process called glycosylation.

"Malaria is caused by a parasite that makes complex proteins, but for whatever reason this parasite doesn't put sugars on those proteins," said Stephen Mayfield, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort. "If you have a protein covered with sugars and you inject it into somebody as a vaccine, the tendency is to make antibodies against the sugars, not the amino acid backbone of the protein from the invading organism you want to inhibit. Researchers have made vaccines without these sugars in bacteria and then tried to refold them into the correct three-dimensional configuration, but that's an expensive proposition and it doesn't work very well."

Instead, the biologists looked to produce their proteins with the help of an edible green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, used widely in research laboratories as a genetic model organism, much like the fruit fly Drosophila and the bacterium E. coli. Two years ago, a UC San Diego team of biologists headed by Mayfield, who is also the director of the San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology, a research consortium seeking to develop transportation fuels from algae, published a landmark study demonstrating that many complex human therapeutic proteins, such as monoclonal antibodies and growth hormones, could be produced by Chlamydomonas.

That got James Gregory, a postdoctoral researcher in Mayfield's laboratory, wondering if a complex protein to protect against the malarial parasite could also be produced by Chlamydomonas. Two billion people live in regions where malaria is present, making the delivery of a malarial vaccine a costly and logistically difficult proposition, especially when that vaccine is expensive to produce. So the UC San Diego biologists set out to determine if this alga, an organism that can produce complex proteins very cheaply, could produce malaria proteins that would inhibit infections from malaria.

"It's too costly to vaccinate two billion people using current technologies," explained Mayfield. "Realistically, the only way a malaria vaccine will ever be used is if it can be produced at a fraction of the cost of current vaccines. Algae have this potential because you can grow algae any place on the planet in ponds or even in bathtubs."

Collaborating with Joseph Vinetz, a professor of medicine at UC San Diego and a leading expert in tropical diseases who has been working on developing vaccines against malaria, the researchers showed that the proteins produced by the algae, when injected into laboratory mice, made antibodies that blocked malaria transmission from mosquitoes.

"It's hard to say if these proteins are perfect, but the antibodies to our algae-produced protein recognize the native proteins in malaria and, inside the mosquito, block the development of the malaria parasite so that the mosquito can't transmit the disease," said Gregory.

"This paper tells us two things: The proteins that we made here are viable vaccine candidates and that we at least have the opportunity to produce enough of this vaccine that we can think about inoculating two billion people," said Mayfield. "In no other system could you even begin to think about that."

The scientists, who filed a patent application on their discovery, said the next steps are to see if these algae proteins work to protect humans from malaria and then to determine if they can modifiy the proteins to elicit the same antibody response when the algae are eaten rather than injected.

Other UC San Diego scientists involved in the discovery were Fengwu Li from Vinetz's laboratory and biologists Lauren Tomosada, Chesa Cox and Aaron Topol from Mayfield's group. The basic technology that led to the development was supported by the Skaggs family. The research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the San Diego Foundation. The California Energy Commission supported work on recombinant protein production for biofuels use, and this technology helped enabled these studies.

 

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Rahsia di sebalik Aspirin

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Ubat Asli dan Ubat Generik

Rujukan : http://drazwan.blogspot.com/2008/04/ubat-nak-yang-original-atau-generik.html

Assalamualaikum...

Ramai di kalangan pesakit tidak memberi perhatian kepada nama-nama ubat yang dimakan. Mereka lebih menumpukan kepada saiz dan bentuk ubat yang mereka makan. Apabila ditanya apakah nama antibiotik yang diberi oleh doktor sekian dan sekian, mereka akan memberitahu bahawa mereka tak pasti tapi antibiotik itu bewarna kuning dan berbentuk bulat.

Di kalangan ibu bapa juga tidak memberi perhatian kepada nama ubat yang dimakan oleh anak. Ini tidak dapat dielak kerana adakalanya nama ubat ini begitu pelik dan sukar hendak diingat.

Adakah anda kenal ubat Augmentin yang dihasilkan oleh syarikat GSK? Saya percaya ramai yang mengenalinya. Ada ibu bapa yang tak boleh hidup tanpa Augmentin. Kalau anak batuk sikit, itulah ubat yang paling utama bermain di kepala. Ia adalah sejenis antibiotik berkuasa nuklear. Tetapi adakah anda kenal Co-Amoxiclav? Ia dihasilkan oleh syarikat pharmaniaga.  Untuk pengetahuan anda, ia adalah antibiotik yang sama tetapi berlainan nama. Augmentin ialah ubat original dan Co-Amoxiclav dipanggil generik.


Apakah itu Ubat Original?

Apabila sesebuah syarikat ubat menghasilkan atau menemui sejenis ubat untuk digunakan melawan sesuatu penyakit, ubat baru tersebut terpaksa menjalani fasa-fasa kajian kepada haiwan dan manusia. Ini untuk memastikan keberkesanannya dan kesan sampingannya. Proses ini mengambil masa bertahun-tahun lamanya dan melibatkan kos berjuta-juta ringgit.

Seterusnya, apabila ubat tersebut hendak dipasarkan, syarikat ini akan membuat permohonan untuk mempatenkan atau melesenkan ubat dan kandungannya supaya tiada syarikat lain boleh meniru produk tersebut. Paten ubat ini kadangkala lama sehingga mencapai 7 tahun. Contoh ubat yang masih dipatenkan ialah Sidenefil Nitrate atau nama powernya ialah "Viagra". Anda akan dapati, tiada ubat lain yang dihasilkan serupa sepertinya oleh mana-mana syarikat ubat lain. Viagra adalah ubat "original" yang dihasilkan oleh syarikat Pfizer.

 

Apakah itu ubat Generik?

Apabila tamat tempoh patensi seperti yang dipersetujui, syarikat-syarikat ubat lain akan menghasilkan ubat sama seperti viagra dan akan diedarkan diseluruh dunia. Ubat generik akan mempunyai kandungan Sildenefil yang serupa seperti viagra tetapi boleh mempunyai nama, warna dan bentuk yang berbeza. Ubat ini dipanggil "generik".

 

Kenapa Ubat Generik Lebih Murah daripada Ubat Original?

Viagra dipaten untuk mewujudkan suasana "monopoly" oleh syarikat pfizer kepada penghasilan viagra ke seluruh dunia. Dengan ini Pfizer akan menjual viagra dengan harga yang sangat tinggi. Ini berlaku kerana syarikat tersebut terpaksa mengutip kembali wang yang telah dilaburkan di dalam R&D bertahun-tahun sebelum ini.

Apabila tamat tempoh patensi, syarikat-syarikat ubat akan menghasilkan ubatyang serupa dan diedarkan ke seluruh dunia. Syarikat-syarikat ini tidak mengeluarkan pelaburan wang untuk tujuan R&D dari awal. Mereka juga tidak perlu melakukan promosi dan pengiklanan kerana produk ini telah dikenali di seluruh dunia. Oleh itu, ubat-ubat seperti ini akan dijual dengan harga yang murah kerana kos penghasilannya juga sangat rendah.

Apakah kelebihan Ubat Generik Berbanding Original?

Ubat generik dan original sepatutnya mempunyai kadar potensi yang sama kerana kandungan bahan aktifnya adalah sama. Sebelum ubat generik diedarkan, kajian keberkesanan juga akan dijalankan untuk memastikan kesannya adalah sama, kadar peresapan di dalam badan dan tahap kandungan di dalam darah adalah mengikut tempoh yang ditetapkan jika dibandingkan dengan ubat original.

Dengan kadar keberkesanan yang sama, tetapi harganya yang murah maka ramai orang boleh mendapat manfaat darinya.

Sebagai contoh, Malaysia sebelum ini dianggarkan mempunyai 50,000 hingga 60,000 orang pesakit HIV dan AIDS. Ini telah menelan kos berjuta-juta ringgit untuk membeli ubat original bagi tujuan rawatan. Namun apabila diperkenalkan kepada ubat generik dari India, ini telah mengurangkan kos rawatan.

 

A Health Ministry official recounted that in November 2002, the Cabinet approved a Ministry of Health proposal to import generic anti-retroviral drugs from India, using Section 84 of the Patents Act 1983 on the government’s rights to exploit a patent for public non-commercial use.

In November 2003, the Ministry of Health obtained a compulsory license from the Ministry of Domestic Trade to import from an Indian company, Cipla, generic versions of three HIV-AIDS drugs that are patented in Malaysia.

In February 2004, the Health Ministry issued a contract to import the generic drugs, which are now distributed through government hospitals and clinics.

 

Pertikaian Tentang Ubat Generik

 

Walaupun kandungan ubat generik dan ubat original adalah sama, ada juga yang berbeza pendapat. Dari segi psikologinya, orang akan menyatakan ubat yang mahal itu lebih "baik" dan "berkesan" berbanding ubat yang murah. Sebagaimana juga ada yang berpendapat bahawa ubat di "hospital kerajaan" adalah lebih rendah kualitinya berbanding "hospital swasta".

Ini adalah kerana, mungkin kebanyakan hospital swasta memberi ubat original. Tentulah caj ubatnya juga berganda-ganda dan mampu membuat anda terkena stroke atau sakit jantung sekali lagi.

Dari segi harga di klinik saya, ubat original - Norvasc 10 mg (amlodipine besylate) ubat darah tinggi yang dihasilkan oleh Syarikat Pfizer berharga RM 4.80 sebiji (!!). Manakala, Ubat generik Vamlo 10 mg (amlodipine besylate) oleh Syarikat Ranbaxy berharga RM 2.50 sebiji.

 

Untuk sebulan, jika anda mengambil norvasc, anda akan membelanjakan RM 144.00 sebulan atau RM 1728.00 setahun, tetapi dengan ubat generik yang sama, anda akan membelanjakan RM 75 sebulan atau RM 900.00 sahaja setahun. Setelah banyak wang dibelanjakan, akhirnya kita tetap melihat bagaimana potensi ubat ini mengawal tekanan darah tinggi pesakit. Jika sama, kenapa bayar lebih?

Walaupun begitu, terdapat kajian di sesetengah tempat di barat yang mana terdapat sejenis dua ubat generik yang tidak memberi kesan yang sama sebagai yang original. Salah satunya di North Carolina USA.

 

Wassalam.