KUCHING, July 21: The Special Committee for Ensuring Access to Covid-19 Vaccine Supply (JKJAV) must look into the claims of empty syringes on social media.
Though social media is a platform where fake news can proliferate, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing said these allegations of the public going for vaccinations but being injected with empty syringes may be true and could cost the lives of the innocent.
“I have read (about) a few cases on social media where people claimed to have been injected with empty syringes.
“I’m not a fan of social media myself, nor do I believe in everything spelled out on social media or facts put on Facebook.
“However, even if the news content has one per cent element of truth, then KKM (Ministry of Health) and PDRM (Royal Malaysia Police) must investigate such claims where people got injected with empty syringes,” he said.
Should these allegations of empty syringes be true, Masing said he could not fathom the benefits doctors and nurses would get out of it.
He suggested the possibility that these incidents were purely mistakes by medical officers who were exhausted from the extended working hours.
“What puzzles me the most is what do the nurses get out of giving empty vaccines (sic). I think it could be that they are fatigued after doing the same thing tens of times a day or just exhausted and thereby indolent.
“Either way, the JKJAV has to look into this and arrest the problem,” he said in a statement today.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Infrastructure and Port Development suggested that KKM start giving doctors and nurses a break by capping the number of recipients they vaccinate in one day.
Masing also referred to a Facebook post on July 18 where an individual uploaded a post claiming he had received an empty syringe before he was jabbed with vaccine when he brought to the officers’ attention that there was nothing in the first syringe.
The incident allegedly took place at the Malaysian International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC), Kuala Lumpur when the individual was scheduled to get his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. — DayakDaily
