THE Malaysian Pharmacists Society (MPS) is delighted to note that the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has been given conditional approval by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency.
With roughly 5,000 community pharmacists serving the nation as frontliners in disease prevention, MPS would like to urge the authorities to seriously consider administering the Covid-19 vaccine to all of them. Community pharmacists deal with members of the public, both healthy and ill, every day and are at high risk of contracting Covid-19; consequently, there is a risk that they would then spread the disease to the people they serve. With community pharmacists properly vaccinated, the public can consult us with confidence. Community pharmacy services are recognised as an essential service under the movement control order.