KUALA LUMPUR – Laden with an icebox, needles, personal protective equipment and other items, the team of volunteers and medical officers stepped out of their van on a narrow kampung road in Beranang, Selangor, one hot Tuesday morning recently.
“At least the rain stopped,” mused one volunteer as the six-person group made their way uphill on a dirt road.
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It was uncomfortably humid and the equipment they carried was heavy but that trip on July 6 was necessary to protect bedridden and disabled people – those who are unable to go to vaccination sites (PPV) – from the coronavirus that has torn through Malaysia since March last year.
- Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Laden with an ice box, needles, personal protective equipment and other items, the team of volunteers and medical officers stepped out of their van on a narrow kampung road in Beranang, Selangor, one hot Tuesday morning recently. At least the rain has stopped, mused a volunteer as the six-person group made their way uphill on a dirt road.
It was uncomfortably humid and the equipment they carried was heavy but that trip on July 6 was necessary to protect bedridden and disabled people – those who are unable to go to Covid-19 vaccination centres (PPV).
It was the first day of the door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination programme by medical non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Mercy Malaysia, Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia Response & Relief Team and the National Cancer Society, aided by the Social Welfare Department (JKM) and the Health Ministry.
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Bedridden individuals and their caregivers in Malaysia have started receiving their Covid-19 vaccine under a door-to-door programme to assess non-governmental organisations’ (NGO) capacity to reach and cover underserved communities.
MERCY Malaysia Health Unit head Dr Mohammad Iqbal Omar, told Bernama MERCY and other NGOs aim to vaccinate some 22,000 individuals in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, listed as bedridden in the government’s database. It’s a pilot project for the NGOs. It is very important for us,” he said, adding the importance of maintaining vaccine integrity.
If successful, this door-to-door vaccination programme will be the blueprint for providing shots to hard-to-reach communities in Malaysia, such as those in the interior, the Orang Asli and refugees.
Home visit: Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz (left) looking on as a patient is given a vaccine at his home in Taman Lembah Jaya in Ampang. Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR: House-to-house vaccination for bedridden patients living in the Klang Valley will be carried out by the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) with other non-governmental organisations under the mobile clinic initiative of the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.
Its adviser Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood said MRCS had mobilised its team to 111 of the 280 houses identified so far to protect vulnerable individuals who have difficulty making the trip to the vaccination centres to get their jabs.
Wednesday, 07 Jul 2021 01:36 PM MYT
BY ARIF ZIKRI
National Cancer Society Malaysia managing director Dr Murallitharan M with a patient and family during the house-to-house vaccination programme. ― Picture courtesy of National Cancer Society Malaysia
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 ― The National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM) and several other non-profit organisations have begun assisting the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) house-to-house vaccination programme.
The vaccine outreach programme which started yesterday, is in collaboration with Pertubuhan Malaysian Women’s Action for Tobacco Control and Health (MYWATCH), Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) and myNadi Foundation.