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TJ MT MGG: Penyakit Belakang Yang Merangsang Doktor Politik By M.G.G. Pillai 29/3/2001 10:46 pm Thu |
MGG 7201 [Anwar telah sakit jerih sejak November lalu.
Sudah lebih empat bulan dia tersiksa begitu.
Keputusan dilengahkan dengan pelbagai syarat
walaupun sakit Anwar semakin tenat. Peralatan
pembedahan mahu diangkut ke sini sedangkan
ia terlalu sensitif dan memerlukan kaliberiti yang
amat teliti. Tidak ada berita gembira buat Anwar yang menderita.
Sebaliknya yang asyik tiba cuma tuduhan dan pengaiban
yang tidak putus-putus terhadapnya. Ada yang menulis
Anwar tidak patriotik dan memercayai kebolehan doktor
tempatan - tidak seperti PM. Malangnya mereka lupa
PM tidak menggunakan khidmat doktor luar kerana
sudah terdesak dan mungkin kojol sebelum kapalterbang
berlepas lagi. Inilah jadinya bila doktor politik mengendalikan pesakit.
Mereka cuma mendatangkan lebih banyak penyakit...
sehingga sakit hati kita mendengarnya.
- Editor] Penyakit Belakang Yang Merangsang Doktor Politik
(Back Surgery gets political doctors operating)
Tetapi, apabila layanan itu berkaitan dengan bekas
timbalan perdana menteri, Anwar Ibrahim, segala
berita yang kita dengar adalah bertujuan untuk
mengaibkannya agar dia akan terus mengaku kalah.
Kini, dia diberitahu betapa dia menerima layanan
terbaik berbanding orang lain. Namun, setiap
permintaan yang dibuat melalui peguamnya ditolak
dan diperlekehkan sahaja. Dia diberitahu betapa
layanan yang diberikan adalah lebih baik daripada
yang diterima orang lain, tetapi tidak pula dia
diberitahu kenapa dan bagaimana pula. Kesakitan Yang Memilukan Dia sedang kesakitan. Satu kecederaan di belikatnya
menjadi lebih teruk lagi apabila seorang bekas
ketua polis negara menghenyaknya setelah tangannya
digari di bahagian belakang dan matanya ditutup
sebaik sahaja dia ditangkap. Kemudian dia menjadi
sasaran pukulan maut ala karate yang begitu dahsyat
kesannya sehingga ditubuhkan satu suruhanjaya
diraja untuk menyelidik kisahnya. Kemudian masih
ada lagi satu dakwaan yang dia telah diracuni
dengan arsenik ketika dipenjarakan dulu.
Kalaulah dia seorang banduan biasa seperti yang
ditegaskan oleh kerajaan, kenapakah para pembantu
khas bekas perdana menteri itu dipanggil untuk
membuat pilihan bilik tahanan yang sesuai
digunakan untuk mengurung beliau di penjara Sungai
Buluh dulu sebaik sahaja dia keluar daripada
hospital? Kenapa pula kabinet perlu membuat
keputusan apakah jenis layanan perubatan yang
layak diberikan kepadanya? Kenapakah kerajaan
tidak berpendirian tegas dan memberitahu beliau
secara lantang bahawa dia adalah seorang banduan
biasa dan akan diberikan layanan perubatan seperti
yang diterima oleh banduan lain? Kerajaan tidak memberikan jawapan yang cepat
kepada permohonannya untuk mendapatkan rawatan
endoscopic di seberang laut. Gelagat hambatan
politik dan birokrasi telah sengaja melecehkan
perkara itu sehingga memburukkan keadaan yang
memalukan. Beberapa perkara yang remeh-temeh
sengaja dicetuskan untuk digembar-gemburkan. Apabila
Dr. Thomas Hoogland tiba untuk membantu, beberapa
kerenah birokrasi dicetuskan lagi untuk
melengahkan keadaan. Peralatan Yang Sensitif Apakah ini caranya: sebuah klinik yang dibuat khas
untuk pembedahan itu dan diubah balik setelah
selesai pembedahan? Apakah mudah sangat pembedahan itu mengikut
pendapat pakar perubatan Malaysia, agar Dr.
Hoogland membawa masuk alat kelengkapan pembedahan
itu dan kemudiannya bawa balik alat itu ke
Germany sebaik sahaja selesai pembedahan? Tetapi,
sesiapa yang pakar akan memberitahu bahawa segala
peralatan yang sensitif perlu dipasang dan diuji
dulu yang memakan masa berbulan lamanya sebelum
peralatan itu dapat diperakukan oleh pakar perubatan
endoscopic tersebut. Kenapakah perkara ini tidak didedahkan? Timbalan
perdana menteri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi telah
memberikan pendapat kebijaksanaannya bahawa Anwar
tidak perlu pergi ke luar negara untuk rawatan
perubatan itu. Mungkin juga kerajaan membenarkan Anwar pergi
mendapatkan rawatan perubatan di luar negara
seandainya beliau bersetuju untuk tidak pulang
kembali. Tetapi, dia memang mahu pulang secepat
mungkin selepas pembedahan itu. Sudah tentu itu
akan mencetuskan konfrontasi secara terbuka kembali
yang akan menyenakkan kedudukan kerajaan lagi.
Ketika dia ditahan dibawah ISA pada pertengahan
1970-an dulu, ada satu kumpulan kawannya yang
mendapatkan restu kerajaan untuk menawarkan
biasiswa agar dia pergi melanjutkan pelajaran
mendapatkan Sarjana di Oxford. Dia menolak tawaran
itu kerana dia sedang ditahan ketika itu.
Demikian jawapannya kepada mereka. Anwar telah menyesuaikan dirinya sebagai insan
yang tidak relevan dalam konfrontasi politik
Melayu. Dengan berbuat demikian, dia menjadi
seorang tokoh yang perlu diperhatikan. Apa juga
kemungkinan yang perlu diambilkira dalam
percaturan masa depan Malaysia, ketokohannya akan
terus membesar. Sama ada ia menyangkuti
perundingan perpaduan Melayu, kesinambungan UMNO
ataupun keupayaan Dr. Mahathir untuk terus kekal
sebagai seorang perdana menteri, sekali pun.
Rencana Asal: malaysiakini Wednesday March 28 01 MGG Pillai So, one prisoner was allowed a waterbed and given time off
to attend to his businesses. Another spent most of his
sentence at the General Hospital. A cabinet minister jailed
for murder, was prison librarian, a much sought out job
taken away from another when his death sentence was commuted
to life. A mentri besar jailed for corruption met his
visitors in the prison chief's office, with a warder serving
food and drinks to his visitors. But in the case of now-jailed former deputy prime minister,
Anwar Ibrahim, the aim is to humiliate and hope he would
yield. He is now told he is treated better than the others;
yet, every request he makes, through his lawyers, is turned
into a political hot potato. He is told he is treated
better than the other prisoners, but is not told why or how.
In intense pain He is in intense pain. An old back injury is aggravated when
the former Inspector-General of Police, no less, went at
him, manacled and blindfolded, shortly after his arrest,
with karate chops so severe that a royal commission of
inquiry was needed. Then there is still the unresolved
allegation that he was subjected to arsenic poisoning in
prison. If he is, as the government insists, a common prisoner, why
are the deputy prime minister's aides brought in to decide
what kind of cell he should be put in at the Sungei Buloh
prison when he leaves hospital? Why does the cabinet have
to decide what kind of medical treatment he is entitled to?
Why cannot the government stand firmly and tell him bluntly
to his face he is a common prisoner and he will get the
treatment other prisoners can expect? It did not respond promptly to his request for endoscopic
surgery overseas. The political and bureaucratic
foot-dragging damaged its case beyond belief. Petty
restrictions are imposed, and highlighted, and when he
finally arrives, Dr Thomas Hoogland, is put through the
hoops, yet again, of bureaucratic bungling.
The operation must be in Malaysia. The health minister, Chua
Jui Meng, even argues Anwar is anti-national for insisting
upon the operation overseas, and for casting aspersions on
local medical talent. The director of the Kuala Lumpur
Hospital says all facilities can be brought in from
hospitals all over the country, but for the endoscope.
So, the operation, it is argued, can be done locally.
Sensitive equipment But is this how it ought to be done: a specially prepared
clinic to be dismantled immediately after?
Is it as simple as Malaysia's medical experts insist, for Dr
Hoogland to bring his equipment for the operation, then take
it back with him to Germany after it? As anyone operating
sensitive, costly equipment would tell you, that once
installed, it must be tested and it would be months before
it would be ready - and even then it may not meet the
standards the endoscopic surgeon expects.
This is known to the government. So, a new attack is opened.
The foreign minister tells a conference in Geneva that Anwar
had agreed not to go overseas for treatment. Now this is a
revelation that should have been announced when Dr Hoogland
was allowed to come here. Why was it not? The deputy prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi, weighs in with his considered view that Anwar need
not go overseas for the surgery can be done here.
But perhaps the government would let Anwar go overseas for
medical treatment provided he does not return. He has no
such intention. He expects to return speedily after his
surgery. And that could only reopen the political
confrontation yet again - and to the government's detriment.
Safe passage offer When a group of his friends, with the government's
blessings, offered him a scholarship to do his Masters at
Oxford, when detained without trial in the mid-1970s, he
would have none of it - not when he is in detention, he told
them. Anwar has repositioned himself as irrelevant in the Malay
political confrontation. But in so doing, he is a figure to
watch. Whatever options are considered about Malaysia's
future at the turn of the 21st century, his persona looms
large. Whether it be Malay unity talks, the survival of Umno
or even if Dr Mahathir Mohamad must continue as prime
minister. However one looks at it, his well-being allows the
government to flounder; it could not contain the political
fallout should anything untoward happen to him. Dr Mahathir
knows this. Anwar knows this. The Malay community knows
this. Which is why his need for endoscopic surgery is no
more medical. It is political. He could go overseas if he
agreed to not come back. But that is like asking a leopard
to change its spots. M.G.G. Pillai |