Shortage of face masks in private healthcare sector

THE Council of the Malaysian Dental Association recently received numerous emails from members practising in the private sector, expressing their concern over the acute shortage in the supply of surgical face masks since the Covid-19 outbreak.

The association conducted an internal survey among members in the private sector to assess the plight of the private dental practitioners. The survey revealed that a shocking 40% of the 2,500 private dental clinics with 3,800 dental practitioners will run out of surgical face masks in the next one month and another 40% in the next two months if the critically low supply continues.