With Malaysians continuing to highlight their specific problems about getting vaccinated, this is where the minister in charge of the national vaccination program, Khairy Jamaluddin (KJ) should impress upon his boss, Mahiaddin Yassin, that parliament should be recalled.
Some Malaysians claim that KJ goes on the defensive each time an allegation is made, about the vaccination program on social media, or is reported in the press.
KJ is aware, that when parliament sits, all the issues about the vaccination roll-out, can be brought to the fore, and he can prove to dissenting politicians, that the vaccination program is transparent, and should any problems remain, these issues can be discussed and hopefully, solutions found.
Instead, KJ has to ward off criticisms from various Opposition politicians that his vaccination program is riddled with inconsistencies.
The sultans of two states, Johore and Selangor have already expressed concern that their subjects have not received sufficient doses of vaccine.
In early June, the Sultan of Selangor was shocked that his state had a low and “unfair” number of Coronavirus vaccines. On 7 June, the cumulative positive cases stood at 203,520. The death toll was 961 people. The sultan was further shocked that the Coronavirus Task Force had confirmed that it had only received a fifth of what was needed. In fact, the state had only received 615,201 vaccine doses and not the 2.9 million as previously claimed.
With the relatively high population of Selangor, and its role as the highest contributor to the Malaysian GDP. the sultan’s disapproval was shared by many. As the head of state of the most industrialised region, the sultan opined that it should be given priority when it came to the vaccine roll-out.
KJ did not dare refute the sultan but when a state exco member for public health, Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud, expressed more or less the same sentiments about the lack of vaccines, KJ was quick to demolish her criticisms.
In fact, the rakyat expressed their dissatisfactions with the vaccine roll out, at the end of last year. The Belgian Secretary of State, Eva De Bleeker, claimed her country had paid RM60 per dose, for Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine, but it transpired that the Malaysian government claimed to have paid RM3 billion, which works out to 20 times the Belgian’s quote.
Was there any irregularity in the purchase of the vaccine? Malaysians including the Opposition politicians want to know, but the answers have not been forthcoming.
The minister then said that the RM3 billion was used to purchase a range of vaccines and these were meant for 70% of the population. Again, he reacts to our criticisms when all of this information should have been made easily and freely available.
KJ needs to address the other issues related to the uptake of vaccines. The poor, the elderly, the rural population and those who do not rely on the internet for their information, are not aware of the vaccines, what the vaccines do and where they can get the injections.
Many people are also sceptical because of the allegations which have spread about the halal-ness of the vaccine, allegations of possible infertility in the young and other wild claims that have spread.
Many old people rely on the normal methods of healthcare promotions, and when the vaccination program was organised in Kelantan, few people turned up. Perhaps, KJ could allay some of these fears with a more targeted information program. It does not help that most government departments are probably not working to capacity.
Others have said that the Sejahtera app does not work. Some people claim that they have been asked to pay for the vaccines when they should be free. Other people claim that they have been offered options to jump the vaccine queues. So it appears that a vaccine delivery system that is supposed to be fair and based on need, has been corrupted. Being vaccinated comes at a price.
At one time, people were told they could select the vaccine of their choice, but it appears that this is now not the case.
On the whole, people are worried about the delay in the vaccination program, when some of our neighbours, in ASEAN, have fared better because they planned ahead.
A few people have said that they were told to cross the state to get their second dose. It is not that the people do not know which location to choose on google maps, but a glitch in the system, tells them to go to a location out of state. As information is gleaned from one’s identity card, some people were told to go to their place of birth for the vaccine, even though they moved from the area, decades ago.
Private General Practitioners (GPs) wrote to KJ to see if they could assist in the vaccination roll-out, earlier this year, but KJ failed to respond. When this was made public, KJ claimed that private clinics were not qualified to administer the vaccine, because of storage problems. This was another of KJ’s foul-ups to cover-up his incompetence and lack of foresight.
KJ also dismissed billionaire philanthropist, Robert Kuok’s offer to donate 2 million doses of Coronavirus vaccines to Penang, calling it a scam.
Although foreigners will be included in the vaccination program, more emphasis has been made on undocumented migrant workers being arrested. Excluding these illegal workers. will render useless the effort to curb the spread of Coronavirus. So, what is KJ’s plan to resolve this humanitarian problem?
KJ should get his task force to look at all the issues before he blames the rakyat, or foreign nations, like the EU or the United States for hoarding vaccines.
The Americans have donated a substantial amount of vaccines, and if the American ambassador had not revealed this, many Malaysians would not have been aware. If the EU representative had not denied and corrected KJ’s spurious claims about developed and richer nations preventing the third world and developing countries from purchasing these vaccines, the wool would have been pulled over our eyes, by KJ.
As you can see, there are several issues, so we’ll reserve Pharmaniaga and the vaccine program in another article!
So, KJ should stop being defensive and just get to work and provide up-to-date and reliable information about the vaccine roll-out.
Source:
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/11/malaysia-to-extend-covid-vaccination-to-all-foreigners-in-country
- https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2021/05/27/khairy-blames-astrazeneca-vaccine-mass-bookings-over-registration-complaints/
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What a fcuking bunch of comic fcuked up fcuking pure arseh*les, diarrhoea-infested Niamahaidin and his 72 virgins with fcuked-up virgin unused and unusable tauhu in their midget heads!
KJ is a sick and cheap fcuking joke of yet another arseh*le.
The fcuking MySejahtera app is another fcuking joke.
You couldn’t make up the ridiculous and unbelievable joke that is the ketuanan “Malay first” horrendous fcuking non-answer, and fcuking non-effort on anything, it is the proprietary trademark the clueless, useless and worthless self-proclaimed fcuking chickenshit kampong long kang pond life “supremacists”!
If the gross fcuking failure upon fcuking failure by diarrhoea-plastered Niamahaidin and his 72 virgins of unused and unusable tauhu brain is the result of a test by the Almighty, She has clearly signalled to Malaysians to tell the fcuking fcuked up gomen to fcuk off, fer Allah’s sale don’t keep trying no more.
That fraud of a fish-brained mullah had better fcuk off too, Saudi Mo bin Salmon has told our fcuking fake mullah retard with the bandaged head – and the world Wahahahabism is flushing the hahahadiths down the pan.
Without the hahahadiths, there’s no need anymore for any monkey mullah to interpret and confuse and confound with the piles of fcuking ridiculous and dumbfcuk “religious” bollocks.
The faithful munafiq monkeys had better keep off fcuking camel urine too, that won’t do any magic for Covid.
It is an indictment of our politicians when the rakyat becomes suspicious everytime money is being “used” for public use. There is always the lingering doubt whether some of the money slipped into someone’s pocket.
How sad!