KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) will provide coordination assistance in movement control and logistics management of the Covid-19 vaccine, slated to arrive in Malaysia tomorrow.
Defence Forces Chief Tan Sri Affendi Buang in a statement today said the ATM will escort the movement of the vaccine from its storage centres to administration centres nationwide.
“The ATM has outlined a plan for vaccine management and handling to ensure the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme can be implemented in an orderly manner, achieve its goals and reduce vaccine wastage.”
Affendi said ATM representatives are placed within the secretariat at the national and state levels to assist the Health Ministry and Covid-19 Immunisation Task Force in planning the implementation of the immunisation programme, especially in coordinating logistics assistance.
“Our roles in terms of logistics assistance include storage, delivery and distribution, besides security control at all phases of the programme.
“We have outlined the implementation of the programme at the ATM level based on the priority given by the government to our members as vaccine recipients.”
He said the immunisation programme will maintain ATM’s capacity and preparedness in protecting the country’s well-being and sovereignty, and ultimately achieve the herd immunity objective.
Through the action plan, the vaccination process will be supervised in stages by ATM’s Health Service Division.
“It comprises the strategy of selecting the eligible groups by taking into account the infection-risk levels based on assignments and areas where they are deployed,” said Affendi.
“It also includes the coordination of human resources and training of ATM’s health personnel to ensure the management and vaccination process can be carried out efficiently.” – Bernama, February 20, 2021
