KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 -- A coalition of health organisations and doctors have stepped forward to offer a Health Emergency Action Plan (HEAP) in light of the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on the country's healthcare system.

It said the aim of offering these ideas and making suggestions is not to apportion blame or point fingers at failure but to offer a roadmap to recovery from Covid-19.

"HEAP is based on three guiding principles, which include trust as being crucial to fighting the pandemic and based on transparency, the necessity of an all-of-society approach, and a set of solutions that are not lockdown-based," said the coalition in a statement.

HEAP's recommendations are centreed on several key thrusts, such as interrupting the communi...