Dr Muhamad Irfan Yasin (left), Wee (behind, right) and others witnessing a medical frontliner receiving his booster dose of vaccine.
KUCHING (Oct 17): A total of 310 medical frontliners were given Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine booster dose at Tanah Puteh health clinic here from Oct 15 to 16.
According to Tanah Puteh family medicine specialist Dr Muhamad Irfan Yasin Ali Uddin, the medical frontiners were from Tanah Puteh health clinic, Sekama and Jalan Bintawa children and mother clinics, Tabuan Community Clinic, Sarawak pharmaceutical logistic branch and Covid-19 One Stop Centre.
“At this moment, we are only focusing on the medical frontliners, and once the MySejahtera mobile application has been updated with Covid-19 booster and third dose feature, we will focus on the adult group with comorbidities,” he said when met yesterday morning at the clinic.
Dr Muhamad Irfan said the health clinic is still administering second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to students aged between 12 to 17 years, and he thanked Kuching South mayor Dato Wee Hong Seng and his council for assisting in the vaccination programme.
Wee, who also witnessed the booster dose vaccination programme at the health clinic yesterday, said Kuching South City Council (MBKS) would always render whatever assistance required in the vaccination programme.
“Starting Oct 18, the vaccination programme will be moved to MBKS indoor stadium, and the Sarawak Health Department together with MBKS and its councillors will work closely to set up the venue before the date,” said Wee.
He welcomed members of the public wishing to volunteer for the vaccination programme to come forward as much assistance was still required.
Also present to witness the administering of the booster shots were MBKS councillors Kho Teck Wan and Goh Tze Hui.