Mawan (left) and others during a brief stopover at Nanga Kara Health Clinic to monitor the Covid-19 vaccination process carried out by a mobile outreach team.
PAKAN (June 17): Pakan assemblyman Tan Sri William Mawan Ikom is confident that Pakan District will be able to achieve herd immunity well before the August deadline set by the state government.
Mawan had noted that the mobile vaccination centres (PPVs) in seven health clinics and Pakan Community Hall coupled with the ‘vaccine first, register later’ approach had succeeded in getting more people in the district vaccinated.
On Tuesday, he was at Nanga Entaih Health Clinic and the main centre at Pakan Community Hall to oversee the vaccination process.
He said the PPV at Pakan Community Hall had been able to vaccinate an average of 250 people per day since it started operation on May 18, and there were days when it dispensed up to 400 doses of vaccines.
“For instance, when the PPV at Pakan Community Hall operated simultaneously with a mobile vaccination team at Nanga Entaih Health Clinic on Tuesday a total of 612 people were vaccinated. Today, 400 people are to be vaccinated at Pakan Community Hall and some 70 people here,” he said when monitoring the vaccination process undertaken by a mobile team at Nanga Kara Health Clinic yesterday.
If the number of daily vaccine recipients remained constant and there was no problem with the supply of vaccines, Pakan District could easily achieve the targeted herd immunity well before August, he said, adding to date 35 per cent of the eligible recipients in the district had received the jab.
Another reason for the increase in number of people vaccinated, he added, was that the assistance of longhouse headmen would be sought to look for replacements if those with appointments did not show up, pointing out that was one advantage of the ‘vaccine first, register later’ method.