Data clean-up to solve ‘missing’ vaccination certificates

 

On Thursday, health minister Khairy Jamaluddin ordered the MySejahtera team to resolve the issue of ‘missing’ digital certificates within a week.

KOTA BHARU: Incomplete vaccine serial numbers, incorrect information at registration, and vaccinations not part of the national immunisation programme –all these have led to “lost” digital certificates for some, despite them being fully vaccinated.

Science, technology and innovation minister Dr Adham Baba said a data clean-up will be carried out to deal with the issue of missing digital vaccination certificates in the MySejahtera application.

Three main factors that contributed to the problem have been identified, he said.

“(Healthcare) staff have to inoculate hundreds of thousands of people every day. There are cases where the vaccine serial number is not updated at the end of the process by the staff manning the final vaccination station.

“Besides that, some fully vaccinated individuals have yet to receive their digital certificate because of erroneous information they entered when they registered on MySejahtera, such as the spelling of their names or incomplete identity card numbers,” he said here after visiting a vaccination centre at Dewan Sri Tunjong today.

In addition, Adham said, vaccination data from immunisation programmes organised by the states, private sector, embassies and recipients who were vaccinated overseas did not go through the national Covid-19 immunisation programme channel.

“The data needs to be verified and updated first, which means their digital certificates cannot be issued immediately,” he said.

On Thursday, the media reported that health minister Khairy Jamaluddin ordered the MySejahtera team to resolve the issue of ‘missing’ digital certificates on the application within a week.

On the supply of Covid-19 vaccines to Kelantan, Adham said the state will receive 1,248,900 vaccine doses this month.

“In addition, 18,000 doses of the CanSino vaccine will be supplied to rural areas, especially to Gua Musang and Kuala Krai to meet the demands of the rural community,” he said, adding that a total of 7,000 Orang Asli in the rural areas will also receive the vaccine doses.

He said more walk-in vaccination or outreach programmes can be conducted to track down individuals who had missed the chance to register for the Covid-19 jabs via the various registration platforms provided by the government. - FMT