Malaysians are still grappling with the lockdowns, and many continue to suffer the impact of loss of incomes and livelihoods.
Many too are being told to register for their Covid-19 vaccination, risking the possibility of being infected, at the mega vaccination centres (PPV) where there are large crowds.
In fact, already one of these mega centres have had to be closed in order to be sanitised because 204 of the staff were infected with Covid-19.
Were those on duty not tested or vaccinated before they were exposed to the public?
And now, there are cases of the vaccinating staff not injecting any vaccines into the arms by not pressing the plunger that would have pushed the vaccine into the patient’s arm.
Reports state that three individuals have been arrested.
The concern is, how many of such cases were not discovered? Very few people look at needles being pushed into their flesh, and I am actually one of them.
Is there a scam going on? Where staff pretend to vaccinate people but no vaccine was actually injected? Was it to pocket the vials of vaccine in order to sell them off for financial gain?
Surely, many are questioning if they actually were vaccinated, and do they actually have the ability to fend off a Covid-19 infection.
That puts people in a perilous situation, thinking that they have been vaccinated but are as vulnerable to infection as before.
The vaccination committee must address this violation of ethics and public trust. Families stand to be unknowingly exposed to Covid-19 infection.
If it is indeed a scam and was deliberately done, it reflects just how deeply corruption has seeped into society.
Cash is king has indeed become the new normal, even in providing public services.
The health minister is supposed to be a medical doctor and co-chairs the vaccination committee. What SOPs have been set out to prevent such abuses? He must know the meaning of the Hippocratic Oath.
Primum non nocere - First, do no harm.
These abuses can do untold harm, with the already vaccinated doubting where they did, in fact, receive the vaccine, and the yet to be vaccinated being hesitant to receive their vaccination.
The vaccination committee must take serious action to stop such incidents and investigate the extent of the abuses. We are dealing with millions of vaccinations.
RAFIDAH AZIZ is former international trade and industry minister.
Many too are being told to register for their Covid-19 vaccination, risking the possibility of being infected, at the mega vaccination centres (PPV) where there are large crowds.
In fact, already one of these mega centres have had to be closed in order to be sanitised because 204 of the staff were infected with Covid-19.
Were those on duty not tested or vaccinated before they were exposed to the public?
And now, there are cases of the vaccinating staff not injecting any vaccines into the arms by not pressing the plunger that would have pushed the vaccine into the patient’s arm.
Reports state that three individuals have been arrested.
The concern is, how many of such cases were not discovered? Very few people look at needles being pushed into their flesh, and I am actually one of them.
Is there a scam going on? Where staff pretend to vaccinate people but no vaccine was actually injected? Was it to pocket the vials of vaccine in order to sell them off for financial gain?
Surely, many are questioning if they actually were vaccinated, and do they actually have the ability to fend off a Covid-19 infection.
That puts people in a perilous situation, thinking that they have been vaccinated but are as vulnerable to infection as before.
The vaccination committee must address this violation of ethics and public trust. Families stand to be unknowingly exposed to Covid-19 infection.
If it is indeed a scam and was deliberately done, it reflects just how deeply corruption has seeped into society.
Cash is king has indeed become the new normal, even in providing public services.
The health minister is supposed to be a medical doctor and co-chairs the vaccination committee. What SOPs have been set out to prevent such abuses? He must know the meaning of the Hippocratic Oath.
Primum non nocere - First, do no harm.
These abuses can do untold harm, with the already vaccinated doubting where they did, in fact, receive the vaccine, and the yet to be vaccinated being hesitant to receive their vaccination.
The vaccination committee must take serious action to stop such incidents and investigate the extent of the abuses. We are dealing with millions of vaccinations.
RAFIDAH AZIZ is former international trade and industry minister.
"If it is indeed a scam and was deliberately done, it reflects just how deeply corruption has seeped into society."
ReplyDeleteWhile I applaud her for asking this question, she should know that corruption is already part of Malaysia's DNA.
It would take a government of monumental integrity to reverse this.
But apart from this article about the no-jab jab, she is also asking why Sinovac vaccines are being sold despite the billions already budgetted.
The reason seems clear to me - money is being siphoned out.
It is already sad that no-jab jabs is happening. And it only happening in Malaysia.
You have to congratulate the scammers for their creativity to "earn" money while putting people's lives at stake.