Sabah gov't dithers over Health portfolio despite surge in Covid-19 cases

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The full Sabah cabinet line-up was officially sworn in on Thursday but there was no health portfolio assigned to any of the state ministers despite Sabah being the epicentre of the new Covid-19 wave in the country.When contacted, Sabah deputy chief minister Bung Moktar Radin explained that this was to prevent the overlapping of job scopes as health is under the purview of the federal government.However, Bung told Malaysiakini that the Sabah cabinet will discuss the matter at a meeting set for Oct 14.“We will handle this next Wednesday... we will not add another minister (into the state cabinet) but will give the portfolio to one of the (existing) ministers,” he said.Bung, who is also the state works minister, pointed out that unlike the previous Warisan government, there was no health portfolio during BN's time.“We want to make sure there is no overlapping (of work). But t…