Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has become the second Institution of Higher Learning (IPT) Vaccine Dispensing Centre (PPV) in the country to provide vaccination via the drive-through method and the first in mobile form.

Higher Education Minister Noraini Ahmad (above) said this was among the efforts of the ministry to mobilise the health workforce of Public Universities and University Teaching Hospitals (HPU) to be involved in the IPT PPV so that the target of 150,000 doses of vaccines administered a day can be achieved by the end of June.

“The programme will focus on urban and rural residents, especially those who have problems of access to the vaccination, transportation problems and...