00:00 A TikTok video showing a nurse in a mud-stained uniform travelling by boat to the remote town
00:06 of Pitas, Sabah has won the hearts of citizens, garnering 2.6 million views and over 146,000
00:14 likes.
00:15 The clip shows the nurse being ferried by a small boat across a river for a routine
00:20 check of one of her patients in rural Pitas and can be seen struggling to hold onto the
00:25 boat with her uniform dirty by mud.
00:29 The video drew scores of comments sympathetic towards the hardship of those providing health
00:33 services in the interior, with users questioning why community nurses aren't given the same
00:38 critical allowance as doctors and staff nurses.
00:43 Senator Dr A Lingeswaran highlighted the issue of community nurses not receiving the 10%
00:48 critical allowance in the Dewan Nagara on Tuesday.
00:52 He urged the Health Ministry to reconsider this decision and proposed a rural hardship
00:57 allowance for all civil servants working in the interior.
01:01 Nurul Jana Yusof, the president of the Community Nurses Association of Peninsular Malaysia,
01:06 said they have been pleading with the authorities to give them the special allowance as their
01:11 jobs are much more challenging than those working in hospitals.
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