COMMENT | A shared responsibility for vaccine literacy
Modified1 Mar 2021, 1:07 am
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COMMENT | The unprecedented impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on individuals, communities and nations needs a collective solution. Now more than ever, we need cooperative action by every side to make the immunisation plan a success through the vaccination programme.
According to records, we have successfully controlled various vaccine prevention diseases such as polio, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and measles. Today, in the history of our public health, we record the implementation of another national immunisation plan as a joint effort to curb the spread of Covid-19.
It should be understood that the vaccine will not provide a drastic overall solution. A vaccination programme allows us to achieve herd immunity with a method that can reduce the risk of infection and death.
Effecting positive change: Lam’s experience as a flood victim spurred him on to devise a water production system with his teammates.
A PHD candidate’s experience of coping with floods and the resulting effects on daily life led him to come up with a solution to Malaysia’s clean water problem.
Together with two other researchers, Lam Jia Yong from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Norfazliana Abdullah from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Mohamad Fakhrul Ridhwan Samsudin from Universiti Teknologi Petronas designed an automated self-powered water treatment and monitoring system for drinkable water production.
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