The late start for the Covid-19 vaccination programme in Malaysia cannot be compared with that of vaccine-producing nations because they prioritised their own citizens first before releasing vaccines to other countries, says Lukanisman Awang Sauni.
Lukanisman said the Public Accounts Committee would be able to provide the answer if it does a follow-up on the vaccine procurement matters discussed in the current session. “With simple calculations, we would be able to estimate the volume of waste or the number of expired vaccines,” he said in his winding-up speech for the health white paper, following a question from Yeo Bee Yin who, in last week’s sitting, had called upon the ministry to reveal the cost of the expired doses.
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