Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen -Political Secretary to the Chief Minister of Sabah visited the vaccination centre in Sutera Harbour , Kota Kinabalu. Dr Roland Chia was received by Dr Prabakharan Solomon AL Dhanaraj, Principal Assistant Director of Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah, Ministry of Health.
This visit was to encourage the front-liners and the hotel management for spearheading this private -public partnership vaccination program. According to Dr Prabakharan Solomon AL Dhanaraj, this vaccination centre can vaccinate up to 400 people per day covering the area of Kota Kinabalu and Putatan operating six-days a week.
Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen has commended the private sector for coming forward offering their venue and resources to the Ministry of Health and Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah as vaccination centres.
Dr Roland Chia also commended the Tzu Chi Foundation volunteers who offered their voluntary services in assisting in the non-clinical aspects of the vaccination process. Dr Roland Chia hoped and welcome more community volunteers to sign up with Jabatan Kesihatan Negeri Sabah to assist the existing health front liners.Dr Roland Chia hopes the community understand that all of the government agencies both state and federal are doing their utmost best to fight this pandemic.
The public should not shy away from vaccination and instead must encourage one another to come forward to register and be vaccinated. In order to beat this pandemic, herd immunity is paramount to move forward.
