By Olivia Miwil - April 8, 2021 @ 2:28pm
Datuk Dr Christina Rundi (right) with during the launching of the state-level Nutrition Month Malaysia programme at Dewan Persatuan India Sabah in Kota Kinabalu. -NSTP/MOHD ADAM ARININ
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah will be more careful when implementing the next phase of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, said the state health director.
Datuk Dr Christina Rundi said since the second phase of inoculation would involve those with comorbidities and above 60, the process would be challenging.
"We will be starting the second phase in the middle of this month and it will be more challenging and we have to be extra careful.
"For this and the next phases, there will be a basic health assessment. If one's illnesses still require treatment or an elderly is very frail, we will not give them the vaccine," she said, adding the recipients' medical records would also be checked prior to administration of the shots.
Dr Christina was speaking to reporters after launching the state-level Nutrition Month Malaysia programme, here.
Despite the low vaccination registration of only 12 per cent from the total population in Sabah, the department assured that it has its own ways of inoculating the people.
Apart from having non-governmental organisations and institutions submitting recipient lists, the state health department also uses e-forms to register names for vaccination.
As for the vaccine supply, she said the state has 104,00 doses of Pfizer-BioNtech (Pfizer) and had used 79,000 for frontliners.
She assured that the supply for the public would be adequate as Sabah is receiving weekly vaccine supplies for both Pfizer and Coronavac's Sinovac.
On private hospitals and general practitioners to administer the Covid-19 vaccines, Dr Christina said the list would be released by the federal government soon.
"The arrangement with private hospitals and doctors would be slightly different as there are some transactions involved and it has to follow a certain criteria.
"Principally, they (private hospitals clients) can choose the types of vaccines based on the availability," she said, adding that all vaccines approved by the government are good and safe.
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