Doctors and officials didn't press the issue when they had the chance to carry out mass vaccinations, says a health expert. FMTNews Polio Infection Disease
A health officer pastes a poster on polio at a sundry shop in Kampung Damat in Sabah, where Malaysia’s first polio case in three decades was reported recently.
Dr Manimalar Selvi Naicker, a pathologist and university lecturer, said the blame should be pinned on the Sabah health authorities more than politicians. “The doctors involved in Sabah should have analysed and understood the threat better to push the mass vaccination agenda through when the window of opportunity existed.
Manimalar said it was understandable that politicians had other urgent matters to attend to, stressing that it was the responsibility of doctors to communicate to lawmakers the magnitude of such threats.
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