This comes after health minister Dr Adham Baba was reported as saying that the majority of Malaysians have not registered for the Covid-19 vaccine and the ministry will identify the causes behind it.

Adham said the ministry was targeting 70% to 80% of Malaysians to register for the immunisation programme, but thus far only 7.6 million out of 26.7 million had registered through the MySejahtera app.

In a statement today, Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) president Dr Kuljit Singh said it is in communication with the Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Access Guarantee Special Committee (JKJAV) to have the finer details sorted out.

“We would want to increase the options for the public and private patients to register manually with the assistance of our staff at our private hospitals into the system. This would be for the free vaccines provided by the government.

“Private hospitals are currently in discussion to confirm our commitment to vaccinate the public using the vaccines provided by the government,” he said.

Kuljit said there are about 210 private hospitals in Malaysia with 152 members of the association which are all strategically situated throughout the country, including the main towns in Sabah and Sarawak.

“We believe with these numbers, our effort in getting more citizens and other residents in this country registered for the vaccine will enhance the programme.

“APHM is also hopeful that with this effort of assisting the patients in private hospitals with the vaccination programme, we could also commence the private vaccination programme parallelly for economic frontliners as soon as the availability of vaccines is attained,” he said.

However, he said, the final site of vaccination will be determined as per on Mysejahtera and not necessarily at the place of registration.

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