In another Open Letter, this time by the Malaysian Society for Intensive Care, it was pointed out that the management of critically ill non-Covid-19 cases and semi-urgent non-Covid-19 cases has been affected. How will this dimension of the current pandemic be managed and coordinated in the system that is traditionally structured around ‘silos’? Melisa Idris and Sharaad Kuttan speak to Dato’ Dr Jahizah Hassan. President, College of Anaesthesiologists with the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia.