Focus on the task: A Sunway Medical Centre waste management trained worker putting a label on each plastic bag of medical waste in a special disposal room.
PETALING JAYA: Millions of people have walked through the doors of vaccination centres to get their jabs but the nitty-gritty aspects, that are often painstakingly observed to ensure the mechanism at such places is running at optimum, are often overlooked.
Work starts at sunrise, with a pharmacist collecting vaccines from one of the designated government hospitals, said Dr Ang Kong Hui who oversees the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre vaccination centre (PPV).
“The pharmacist starts at 7am and picks up the vaccines every Monday and Thursday, or on Tuesday and Friday. They pick up the orders from a Health Ministry pharmacist.