A hearing-impaired individual registers for vaccination, as (standing, from right) Fatimah, Kuching South Mayor Dato Wee Hong Seng and others look on.
KUCHING (July 3): A total of 3,613 persons with disabilities (PwDs) in Sarawak have received their Covid-19 vaccine jabs, said Minister Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Dato Sri Fatimah Abdullah.
She stated that from the total number, 1,424 underwent vaccination at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK).
“A total of 520 PwD trainers and 276 supervisors have received their vaccines at various divisional health offices, 516 took their jabs at the Agape Centre in Sibu, and 363 in Miri.
“The PWD vaccination programme at Normah Medical Specialists Centre Kuching recorded 514 individuals, of whom 444 were PwDs, 31 were caretakers and 39 were staff members from various organisations,” she said during a visit to the Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) Kuching, where a vaccination programme for the hearing-impaired community took place yesterday.
The minister disclosed that some PwDs were afraid of being administered with the vaccine and thus, not willing to register for the vaccination programme.
She said some of them were worried about things that might occur post-vaccination, while others feared the potential side effects.
“But after getting some understanding on how the vaccines can help and seeing how other PwDs have been OK after being vaccinated, they’re more receptive to taking the vaccines.
“The success stories of PwDs taking the vaccines help boost the confidence of other PWDs in registering for vaccination.”
Fatimah said she had come across an autistic child, who was reluctant to take the vaccine at first.
“It took us about an hour to convince the child to take the vaccine,” she added.
The vaccination programme for the hearing-impaired community here was aimed at vaccinating 87 individuals yesterday, and 32 this July 5.
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