KJ calls for whistleblowers as more vaccine queue-jumping complaints emerge
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has called for whistleblowers to come forward amid more complaints of alleged attempts to jump the queue for the Covid-19 vaccine.
He said this in response to consultant physician and nephrologist Dr Rafidah Abdullah who highlighted complaints that officials from the Kelantan state secretariat were trying to jump the queue.
Malaysiakini previously also highlighted complaints from staff at Serdang Hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they could face...
Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has called for whistleblowers to come forward amid more complaints of alleged attempts to jump the queue for the Covid-19 vaccine.
He said this in response to consultant physician and nephrologist Dr Rafidah Abdullah who highlighted complaints that officials from the Kelantan state secretariat were trying to jump the queue.
Malaysiakini previously also highlighted complaints from staff at Serdang Hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they could face disciplinary action, about a proposal to prioritise hospital administrators and influencers but the Health Ministry dismissed this as "fake news".
Since then, this news portal had received two more similar complaints, one related to the Kelantan state secretariat as highlighted by Rafidah and another in Penang involving senior district officials.
"I view this queue-jumping issue seriously. I have informed the matter to Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah to ensure no queue-jumping.
"Whistleblowers can email anonymously directly to me at kj@mosti.gov.my and I will investigate," Khairy said on Twitter.
The minister added that his team has been monitoring complaints of vaccine queue-jumping on social media.
"We take every exposé seriously. Vaccine equity is important," he said.
Earlier, Rafidah shared a message claiming that the Kelantan state secretariat had asked for 200 doses of vaccines to be reserved for 200 officials.
The message claimed that the state secretariat had refused to reveal the list of who will be vaccinated until the day of vaccination itself.
It added that this meant that medical frontliners who needed the vaccine had to be pushed back.
Kelantan Menteri Besar Ahmad Yaakob's press secretary Khairul Fadli, responding to the allegation, merely shared the forwarded screenshot of a conversation between Health Ministry deputy director-general (public health) Dr Chong Chee Kheong and Kelantan Health Department deputy director (public health) Dr Abdul Haris Muhammad.
In the conversation, Abdul Haris denied the allegation.
Nothing ever changes in Malaysia, does it? Not unexpectedly, barely surprisingly, you have the ruling political class and their bureaucratic class of pencil-pushers and interlopers trying to jump queues for vaccination in the way you would find many ordinary people jumping queues for buses and trains with the exception at airports. Looks like the glorious Muhyiddin Yassin (and Hadi Awang) has an inspirational example for his political class and the craven bureaucrats to behave like jackasses and leave everybody else behind as if they're just dirt anyway. How shameful. How disgusting. How stupid.
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