Taking responsibility for vaccine failure ― Amar-Singh HSS | Malay Mail

DECEMBER 17 ― The recent unprecedented polio event in Sabah shows how fragile our health services are and how much vigilance is required to protect our children. Much has been written about it but I would like to bring our attention to taking responsibility for our behaviour and our policies. As a nation we are very much into blame-shifting and seldom take responsibility for our failure. There are four “responsibilities” here, four failures we need to address.

In addition how good is MOH’s vaccination coverage on the ground for Malaysian children? The recent polio event has shown that close to 12 per cent of children, aged between two months and 15 years, examined at the location had not received polio vaccine. It'll be good if MOH would let us know how many of these are undocumented children and how many of them are Malaysian children.

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