Activist: Use Welfare Dept data to auto register the disabled for vaccines

The government should utilise Social Welfare Department data to register more persons with disabilities with the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NIP), said activists.

Putrajaya should also roll out manual and rural outreach programmes, they suggested.

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rina Harun recently revealed that just 33.8 percent of the community had signed up as of May 31.

This represents 195,395 out of 577,352 people.

Rina had urged NGOs to help raise registration numbers.

V Murugeswaran heads the Damai Disabled Person Association in Petaling Jaya, which serves people with physical disabilities.

Speaking to Malaysiakini, he said NGOs...