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Cardiologist who defied authorities to go jogging charged with breaching MCO
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Consultant Cardiologist Dr Ong Hean Teik is pictured arriving at the George Town Court Complex March 30, 2020 Picture by Sayuti Zainudin |
GEORGE TOWN, March 30 - A cardiologist who challenged authorities trying to enforce the movement control order and continued jogging was charged over two related offences today.
Prosecutors charged Dr Ong Hean Teik, 61, with going to the Taman Bandaraya along Jalan Persiaran Quarry at 4.45pm on March 19 without valid reason as required under Rule 3(1) Prevention of Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the infected local areas) Regulations 2020.
This section provides for a fine of up to RM1,000 or a jail term of not more than six months or both upon conviction.
He was also charged with obstructing a public servant from discharging his duty at the same place at about 6pm on the same day, under Section 186 of the Penal Code.
The second offence is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment, a maximum fine of RM10,000, or both upon conviction.
Ong, who was represented by Bala Mahesan, claimed trial to both charges.
Magistrate Jameliah Abdul Manaf allowed bail at RM13,000 for both charges and ordered Ong to surrender his passport.
She also ordered him to report to the police station once a month and set mention date of the case on June 9.
On March 19, Penang Island City Council (MBPP) enforcement officers spotted Ong jogging at Taman Bandaraya and advised him to go home to observe the MCO implemented the day before.
The doctor defied them while insisting he was entitled to be at the recreational park to exercise for health reasons.
A video of the disagreement was shared on social media while the MBPP lodged a police report against Ong after the incident.
Just Deserts
Prosecutors charged Dr Ong Hean Teik, 61, with going to the Taman Bandaraya along Jalan Persiaran Quarry at 4.45pm on March 19 without valid reason as required under Rule 3(1) Prevention of Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the infected local areas) Regulations 2020.
This section provides for a fine of up to RM1,000 or a jail term of not more than six months or both upon conviction.
He was also charged with obstructing a public servant from discharging his duty at the same place at about 6pm on the same day, under Section 186 of the Penal Code.
The second offence is punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment, a maximum fine of RM10,000, or both upon conviction.
Ong, who was represented by Bala Mahesan, claimed trial to both charges.
Magistrate Jameliah Abdul Manaf allowed bail at RM13,000 for both charges and ordered Ong to surrender his passport.
She also ordered him to report to the police station once a month and set mention date of the case on June 9.
On March 19, Penang Island City Council (MBPP) enforcement officers spotted Ong jogging at Taman Bandaraya and advised him to go home to observe the MCO implemented the day before.
The doctor defied them while insisting he was entitled to be at the recreational park to exercise for health reasons.
A video of the disagreement was shared on social media while the MBPP lodged a police report against Ong after the incident.
Just Deserts
Some people don't
Some people do
Get their just deserts
In what they're going through
Some people bring
It all upon themselves
While others are hit blindly
Out of left field
Who's to say
In what life tosses your way
Could be yours could be theirs
When we make mistakes
Hear now what I say
Mark my every word
Sometimes we do sometimes we don't
Get what we deserve
- Mike Hauser
What's the point?
ReplyDeleteThere are lot of people with fever but are asked to go home by KKM without any Covid-19 test done.
My brother-in-law got fever 38.1°C, he went to KKM but KKM asked him to go home to rest; no Covid-19 test done.
Two days later he got cough and diarrhoea and he decided to go to KPJ Damansara for Covid-19 testing and the next day he got a call that he is Covid-19 positive.
The next day at about 7:00pm KKM Ambulance came to his house and brought him to Sungai Buloh Hospital. He is under Covid-19 treatment at Buloh Hospital now.
TODAY, his wife got cough, migraine and diarrhoea, she informed KKM but the Doctor asked her to do her own testing at KPJ Damansara, and if positive Covid-19, then only KKM will send an ambulance to bring her to Sungai Buloh Hospital. She did go to KPJ but there is a long queue, and she decided to go back to rest as she felt weak. She is resting at home now.
What's the point of charging the cardiologist to jail, if people with clear symptoms of Covid-19 are being asked to do their own private Covid-19 testing? In the meantime, the virus spread to the whole family members and perhaps others. Come on KKM?
Muhyiddin himself admitted that his government was not properly voted in.
ReplyDelete"This is not the government you voted for".
With this admission is the MCO even valid?
wakakaka, jangan jadi loyarburuk juga
DeleteDesert or Dessert?
ReplyDeletedesert as in just desert or due desert
Deletemeans "a punishment or reward that is considered to be what the recipient deserved"
not ang tau sng wakakaka
It should be "Just Desserts"
DeleteDesert is like Sahara Desert.
Despite its pronunciation, just deserts, with one s, is the proper spelling for the phrase meaning "the punishment that one deserves." The phrase is even older than dessert, using an older noun version of desert meaning "deserved reward or punishment," which is spelled like the arid land, but pronounced like the sweet treat.
Deletehttps://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/just-deserts-or-just-desserts
(2) In early use desert was often used in the singular, and just desert might not refer to a punishment, but to anything that was deserved. In modern use it is typically found in the plural, and just deserts almost always is in reference to a deserved punishment, rather than a reward. And remember that just deserts has nothing to do with post-prandial sweets, unless it is that the punishment that you deserve is to receive none of these things.
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