{"id":987524599,"date":"2021-05-07T03:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/malaysia-needs-supplementary-fund-allocation-as-covid-19-vaccine-and-operating-costs-increase\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:24:36","slug":"malaysia-needs-supplementary-fund-allocation-as-covid-19-vaccine-and-operating-costs-increase","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/malaysia-needs-supplementary-fund-allocation-as-covid-19-vaccine-and-operating-costs-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia needs supplementary fund allocation as Covid-19 Vaccine and operating costs increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An additional RM 2 Billion allocation is needed for the National Covid-19 Immunization Programme (NCIP) due to increased costs to procure the Covid-19 vaccine and the costs to administer the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Programme coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said that taking into consideration the risk of supply disruption, such as export bans, raw materials, manufacturer&#8217;s capacity and regulatory approvals, the budget needs to accommodate 110% of the population. This includes the cost of clinical trials, additional booster shots, vaccine contracts still in the pipeline and rental and utility costs for over 600 public vaccination centres.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Public Accounts Committee is satisfied with the NCIP&#8217;s requirements and should allocate the required amount soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from the new report originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news_immunisation.php?id=1956520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernama<\/a>, Malaysia&#8217;s National News Agency. Read the entire report&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news_immunisation.php?id=1956520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/media2.malaymail.com\/uploads\/articles\/2020\/2020-07\/khairy_jamaluddin_14072020.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malay Mail<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about the fund allocations to the National Covid-19 Immunization Programme? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An additional RM 2 Billion allocation is needed for the National Covid-19 Immunization Programme (NCIP) due to increased costs to procure the Covid-19 vaccine and the costs to administer the programme. Programme coordinating Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said that taking into consideration the risk of supply disruption, such as export bans, raw materials, manufacturer&#8217;s capacity and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2316,124,129,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}