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Healthcare workers carry out Covid-19 screening in Kuala Lumpur October 21, 2020. Malaysia is expected to receive the first batch of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines on February 26, a senior health official said today. Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 1 Malaysia is expected to receive the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on February 26, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
He said that once arrived, the vaccine will be distributed in stages to the states within a week or two.
Give CKD patients priority in vaccination programme
February 1, 2021
KUALA LUMPUR – The government has been urged to give priority to patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in its COVID-19 vaccination programme.
The call was jointly made by National Kidney Foundation chairman Datuk Dr Zaki Morad, Malaysian Society of Nephrology president Prof Dr Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor and Malaysian Society of Transplantation president Dr Rosnawati Yahya
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They said this would reduce overcrowding in the Ministry of Health’s haemodialysis (HD) centres and help return some normalcy to HD centres run by private and non-governmental organisations.
They said priority should be given to groups such as patients on haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, patients with functioning kidney transplants and patients with CKD stage 3-4 (pre-dialysis).
PETALING JAYA: The Health Ministry has confirmed that a delay in reporting Covid-19 cases to the National Crisis Preparedness and Response Centre led to the recent drastic increase in cases. For three days straight, the country was shocked by news of daily cases reaching above 5,000. The ministry confirms that the situation was caused by a delay in cases being reported, including positive cases that were found in 2020. The drastic increase in cases is due to massive targeted screenings at workplaces and high-risk groups in several states. However, these delayed cases have been given the appropriate action by the district health office, such as patient isolation, close contact tracing and treatment for positive cases, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in a statement Sunday (Jan 31).
“BECAUSE of the sacrifices I made, Allah had eased things for me,” said Intan Rosmawannie Adlan, a frontliner at the COVID-19 Quarantine and Treatment.