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Kluang hospital short of staff as beds and specialist services grow
Enche' Besar Hajjah Kalsom Hospital in Kluang is facing a manpower shortage as its bed capacity and specialist services expand to serve more than 330,000 residents. Johor health committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said the hospital has 396 beds, with 38 more expected once Ward 10B upgrading is completed by end-September, and that Johor will raise the staffing shortfall with the health ministry.
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Three dead including a child in Kluang terrace house fire
Three people, including a young boy, died after being trapped in a fire that gutted a two-storey terrace house in Taman Titiwangsa, Kluang, last night. The Kluang fire station received the emergency call at 10.44pm and sent 14 personnel to the scene. The house was about 50 per cent destroyed and the victims have not yet been identified.