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TJ MT MGG: Perdana Menteri Kelentong Lagi By M.G.G. Pillai 5/4/2001 12:28 pm Thu |
MGG 7801 [Anwar mahu diaibkan lagi walaupun di saat dia kesakitan tidak
berperi. Beliau dituduh mahu lari sedangkan tiada alasan untuk beliau
lari tetapi ada banyak alasan untuk seorang doktor yang menuduhnya lari.
Rakyat sayangkan beliau - mengapa beliau perlu lari?
Anwar juga dikatakan tidak patriotik kerana ingin dirawat di luar negara.
Soalnya ini nasihat pakar antarabangsa, bukannya nasihat pakar kelentong
yang tidak berguna. Lagipun Mahathir dan Chua cuma memerlukan pembedahan
biasa (kerana sakit biasa) tetapi Anwar teramat perlu pembedahan luarbiasa
kerana (sakit tidak biasa dan) kepakaran polis membalun yang juga amat
luarbiasa. Tuduhan itupun belum mencukupi lagi. Anwar dikatakan mendapat layanan
istimewa sedangkan itu tidak pun diminta. Yang salah pihak yang
sengaja beria-ria menyediakannya dan begitu bodoh pula menonjolkannya
sehingga melanggar tatacara penjara (dan akta rahsia?).
- Editor] (MGG The Prime Minister Spins A Tale) Perdana Menteri turut campurtangan dalam kontroversi mengenai rawatan
perubatan Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Mantan timbalan perdana menteri itu
sedang menanggung kesakitan pada tulang belakangnya yang teramat sangat.
Seorang pakar bedah endoskopik berbangsa Belanda, Dr. Thomas Hoogland,
telah memberi nasihat agar pembedahan mikroskopik dilaksanakan tetapi
Malaysia tidak pula mempunyai kemudahan untuk memudahkan pembedahan itu
di negara ini. Tetapi, kerajaan bertegas pembedahan itu boleh
dilaksanakan di sini. Dr. Mahathir berkata kalau dia boleh menjalani
pembedahan jantungnya di sini, kenapa pula Dato' Seri Anwar tidak
boleh dibedah di sini. Pembedahan yang diperlukan oleh Anwar belum lagi menjadi bidang
kepakaran pakar bedah tempatan dan pakar pelali yang ada. Bukankah itu
juga sebabnya Dr. Mahathir pergi luar negara untuk beberapa rawatan
perubatan yang sengaja dirahsiakannya? Kenapa dia pergi luar ngara
sedangkan kini dia berkata: "Untuk mengatakan bahawa pembedahan tulang
belakang tidak mempunyai kepakaran mencukupi adalah membodohkan diri.
Pakar-pakar kita boleh lakukan apa bentuk pembedahan pun kalau perlu."
Tentunya dia merujuk kepada Institiut Jantung Negara yang telah
membedah jantungnya dan yang telah dilengkapkan oleh kerajaan dengan
segala kelengkapan terkini untuk pembedahan. Institusi itu kini sudah
diswastakan dan kos perkhidmatannya sudah tidak lagi dapat dicekau oleh
rakyat marhaen. Di situlah dia menerima layanan terbaik dan khidmat
kepakaran yang sungguh unggulan. Tetapi, apakah boleh dibezakan anjing
dengan kucing ataupun pipit dengan enggang, seperti sikap kerajaan
dalam perkara ini. Apabila kerajaan terus gelabah untuk mempertahankan
perkara yang rapuh pihak yang lagi satu akan terus berpendirian yang
lebih teguh. Pihak penjara telah melanggar peraturannya dengan membenarkan RTM masuk
ke situ. Kenapa begitu? Saya diberitahu tidak ada rak buku sebelum
itu, kerana dia dibenarkan hanya lima buah buku pada sesuatu masa
sedangkan meja yang ada adalah sebagai kemudahan untuk memudahkan dia
mentelaah untuk kajian kedoktorannya. Inilah caranya rakyat diberitahu
betapa dia menerima layanan yang istimewa. Tetapi, isu sebenar adalah
lebih besar dari itu. Kalau dia tidak layak kepada kemudahan itu
sebagai banduan biasa kenapakah kerajaan beria-ia menyediakan segala
kemewahan itu diperingkat mula-mula? Adalah penting menteri dalam
negeri menjelaskan perkara ini sepenuhnya agar perkara ini dapat
diselesaikan dengan segera. Siapakah sebenarnya yang mengizinkan kru RTM
menjelajah sampai ke sana? Rencana Asal: The Prime Minister joins the controversy about Dato' Seri
Anwar Ibrahim's medical treatment. The jailed former deputy
prime minister's back pain is so excruciating that he can
only eat standing. A Dutch spinal endoscopic surgeon, Dr
Thomas Hoogland, recommends microscopic surgery for which
Malaysia does not have the facilities. But the government
insists it can be done here. Dato' Seri Mahathir says if he
could have had his open heart surgery here, Dato' Seri Anwar
should too. There is no comparison. Dr Mahathir had a heart attack
in the middle of the night and quick surgery was required,
but plans were then afoot to have it overseas. His health
minister, Dato' Chua Jui Meng, was all set to have his open
heart surgery overseas but had it done locally when he was
told to have it done locally. Why did he even think of
overseas for what is now a routine operation in Malaysia?
Open heart surgery is well advanced in Malaysia; endoscopic
spinal microscopic surgery is not. It is not one of competence of local surgeons and
anaesthetists. If it was, would Dr Mahathir have gone
overseas since for several surgical procedures he underwent
but kept secret? Why did he then go overseas when he now
says: "To say that for a back bone operation, there are new
skills is absurd. Our surgeons can perform whatever
operations (are needed)." The upshot of his open heart
operation is the Institiut Jantung Negara, which the
government ensured is fitted with the latest equipment. It
is, of course, now privatised and made out of reach of the
common man. But he had the best care and the best cardiac
surgeons available. You cannot compare cats and dogs but
that is what the government does here. When the government
shoots itself in the foot in defending the indefensible, the
other side holds its ground even more firmly.
Dato' Seri Anwar's medical treatment has led to a
political stalemate. It is, in the government's belief,
part of a campaign to unseat it; says he would not return
when it fears he would. That hundreds of thousands could be
at KLIA to welcome him back is not one it wants to
contemplate. The politics of Iran and the Philippines
changed irrevocably when the regime's leading political
opponents, the Ayatollah Khomeini and Sen. Ninoy Aquino,
returned home from exile. Dato' Seri Anwar, of course, is
not in exile, but the effect is the same. In Iran, the
Philippines and Malaysia, the reason why is the same: an
entrenched leader holding on to power despite widespread
antipathy. Unlike in the other two, in Malaysia Dato' Seri Anwar
is kept in the limelight by an efficient campaign mounted on
his behalf by his supporters and the government not
responding as it should. Every action it takes is seen as
self-serving and vindictive. Last week, the government-run
Radio Talivisyen Malaysia (RTM) was allowed into Sungei
Buloh prison's restricted area where high officials, police
officers and others who could be manhandled by the inmates
at large are kept. No outsider, including prison officers
other than those on duty there, is allowed into this area.
The prison broke its own regulations to allow RTM
there? Why? I am told there is no bookshelf, that he is
allowed only five books at a time, the table to enable him
to work on his doctorate. Clearly, Malaysians are told he
is well treated. But the issue is larger: if he is not
entitled to all this as a common prisoner, why is the
government bending over backwards to ensure he gets all
these luxuries? It is important the home minister explain
this fully, and set the matter to rest once and for all.
So, who allowed the RTM crew in there? The home minister,
Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, should come clean and
explain. Dato' Seri Anwar remains the hidden political
destabiliser in UMNO. The Prime Minister and UMNO president
must take his powerful anti-UMNO influence into account to
wean back the deserting Malay ground. Malay unity talks
ignoring his predicament is to isolate him. The Malay would
not accept it. Which is why the talks between UMNO and PAS
for one is stalled. The UMNO elections is awry. Dato'
Fauzi Abdul Rahman's revolt in Kelantan unhinges UMNO: he
brought Dato' Seri Anwar, whose close friend he is, on to
centrestage amidst the elections. UMNO runs hither and thither to contain it, but the die
is cast. No one in UMNO can do anything about that. When
Dato' Seri Anwar's mother had a heart attack yesterday
morning in the cardiac care unit of the University Hospital,
the petty bureaucrats had their way: the prison authorities
demanded a letter before it would consider allowing him at
her bedside. As it happened, he managed to see her before
she died. But it was a close call. The government is so
petty when dealing with him that even if it should change
its tack, it would still be blamed. Especially with the
Prime Minister's asinine statement yesterday.
M.G.G. Pillai
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