Malaysia’s first Covid-19 vaccine was administered on Feb 26, kicking off the most important vaccination programme in our history. Khairy Jamaluddin, coordinating minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NCIP), has plans for 80% of our resident population to be vaccinated by between December 2021 and February 2022.
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YOURSAY | Vaccines for private hospitals – helping govt or making money?
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Anonymous 15897060865429524: Allowing private hospitals to sell an assortment of Covid-19 vaccines that paying customers can choose will create an imbalanced situation where the rich will take up the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and will be vaccinated faster. The poor will continue to wait in line and be left with Chinese Sinovac and Russian Sputnik V vaccines.
It will create a situation where Covid-19 becomes a poor people s disease and clusters will be focused in poor areas or Covid-19 ghettos .
If you are rich, you get the best medicine and you get it faster than others. If you are poor, you wait for the subpar medicine and in the meantime, hope you don’t get sick. It reminds me of the film