KUANTAN – The postponement of appointments for vaccine shots scheduled at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital (HTAA) here, is not due to queue jumping.
Pahang Health director Datuk Dr Bahari Che Awang Ngah said the postponement involved those scheduled to receive their jabs from March 2 to 4, adding that the state has exhausted its vaccine supply for frontliners which only began on Friday.
“The situation has resulted in the earlier vaccine dispensing schedule to be postponed to another date when supply is replenished soon,” he said.
The delay also involved vaccine jabs for those in the 4pm to 5pm session today, as well as all sessions for the next two days.
“However, I wish to stress that there is no issue of queue-cutting...it was due to vaccine supply running out. We know the priority of vaccination is for frontliners,” he told Bernama here today.
Dr Bahari was commenting on allegations which went viral on Facebook yesterday, claiming that the delay was due to the doses being given to privileged individuals.
“I hope the people would not make their own assumptions over the matter and should call the Pahang Health Department to obtain the true information,” he said.
Pahang received 23,400 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with 11,700 doses distributed to HTAA last Thursday. – Bernama, March 2, 2021
