KUALA LUMPUR – A drive-through vaccination centre for persons with disabilities is expected to be ready next week, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun.
She said that the drive-through centre will be at a location in the Klang Valley, in collaboration with the private sector, via Senator Datuk Ras Adiba Radzi.
“This (drive-through) is an alternative to facilitate and expedite the vaccination exercise of the disabled community,” she told reporters after reviewing the implementation of the persons with disabilities vaccination programme at the Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) Complex here.
Rina said based on data from the Social Welfare Department, about 577,000 disabled people have registered for the shots through the department so far, while a total of 195,395 PWDs had registered through MySejahtera.
She said there were still many who had yet to register for the vaccine and the ministry had also worked with NGOs and other related associations to speed up the registration process for the disabled community.
At the same time, Rina said the Social Welfare Department had submitted the names and basic details of 446,000 disabled people registered in the Disability Information Management System to the relevant parties to ensure that individuals in the target group would not be sidelined from getting the vaccine.
To facilitate registration, MAB had also set up a special call centre at 03-2272 2677 and to date had received 1,900 applications, she said.
She added that the Covid-19 vaccination centre at MAB is expected to be able to administer 200 doses of vaccines daily, with the involvement of 20 JKM volunteers to assist paramedics and doctors on duty.
Based on the check at the centre at MAB, Rina expressed her satisfaction with the implementation of the immunisation programme at the response had been encouraging so far.
According to the national immunisation programme, the second phase of vaccination targets 9.4 million senior citizens, vulnerable groups and the disabled people, from April to August. – Bernama, June 4, 2021
