MMA president Dr N Ganabaskaran said an apartment building management in Petaling Jaya had reportedly segregated a lift for use by medical and essential services workers after a tenant, also a healthcare worker, came down with Covid-19 at the end of March.

He said the action was taken to prevent other residents from getting infected. Ganabaskaran said there should be regular cleaning of common areas, and temperatures of residents should be taken at entrances as precautionary steps.

But segregation at shared facilities such as lifts was unnecessary “and smacks of discrimination against our healthcare workers,” he added. “These kinds of discriminatory practices demonstrate that a serious problem of misinformation exists among the public.”

“If all the preventive measures (recommended by the health ministry) are taken, there should be no reason to fear,” he said.

Some people were going beyond necessary precautionary measures out of fear for the deadly virus, he said. The authorities should investigate such discriminatory practices.

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