Our Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is one good leader.
Riding with the mobile vaccination unit
Despite his busy schedule, Dr Noor Hisham still managed to find time to turun padang and take care of those who need help.
On Saturday (26 June), he worked as a vaccinator as he administered the vaccine to several individuals, including those who were bedridden, in Batu Pahat in Johor.
Dr Noor Hisham shared several photos of him on duty on his Facebook page, much to the surprise of netizens.
"A day with our mobile team providing vaccination service to those who are housebound and bedridden patients," he wrote.
Dr Noor Hisham was part of the mobile vaccination programme pilot project which kicked off on 14 June around Parit Sulong.
According to New Straits Times, the pilot project is part of a collaboration between the COVID-19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF), the Johor Health Department, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM) and the institute of higher learning (IPT) vaccination centre (PPV).
The mobile vaccination project is an initiative by an IPT to assist the government in increasing the coverage of the vaccination under the COVID-19 National Immunisation Programme.
Total vaccinated to date
As of Saturday (26 June), a total of 7,039,072 doses were administered nationwide, Free Malaysia Today reported.Health Minister Dr Adham Baba said a total of 5,072,714 individuals have received their first dose, while another 1,966,358 got their second dose.
With the number of vaccinated individuals picking up, the co-chair of the special COVID-19 vaccine committee (JKJAV) Khairy Jamaluddin said that the country is close to its target of inoculating 10 per cent of its population.
"We are nearing the 10 per cent vaccination target required to move into phase two [of the National Recovery Plan 2021]," he was quoted a saying.
We hope the number of vaccine administered will continue to go up, and the number of daily cases continue to go down.