KUALA LUMPUR: The Health Ministry only provides influenza vaccine at its health facilities as a preventive measure for treating patients in high-risk groups, says Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
Dr Noor Hisham said this was to prevent patients, especially young children and the elderly with weakened immune systems, from getting complications that can result in death due to the viral infection.
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