Hung Sung Huo
KUCHING (June 5): The Kuching Life Care Society will be providing free ambulance service for physically-challenged individuals who need to travel between their home and Covid-19 vaccination centres here from June 7 to July 27.
Its founder Hung Sung Huo said the free ambulance rides cover the mass vaccination centre at Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) and the Indoor Stadium as well as other vaccination centres in and around the city.
“We, as an NGO (non-governmental organisation), are playing our role to complement the government’s efforts to expedite the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme so as to achieve herd immunity to break the chain of infections.
The free ambulance service would be available from June 7 to July 27.
“We welcome the physically challenged individuals to contact us two or so days prior to their appointment so that we can make the necessary arrangement,” he said yesterday.
Hung said individuals who need the free ambulance service must provide their name, address, appointment date and time and vaccination centre.
He advised them to WhatsApp the details to the Society’s hotline on 013-8038999.
Alternatively, he said they can contact them on Facebook or drop an email at [email protected].
BCCK on Thursday said that it was set to serve up to 4,000 people per day, with potential to expand up to 10,000, as it opens as a vaccination centre from June 7.
Recently, State Disaster Management Committee chairman Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said the city’s other vaccination centre, the Indoor Stadium, currently vaccinated 1,600 people per day.
The deputy chief minister added that the number will be pushed up to 2,500 persons per day in due course.