Health Ministry task force to probe lower MMR jab rates
Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye says the ministry’s vaccination task force will investigate why measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations have dropped to 89 per cent. — Picture by Farhan Najib
“We have no problems with the compulsory vaccination from birth to three months. The only problem we have is the MMR vaccination where 89 per cent of babies were vaccinated in 2018,” Deputy Health Minister Dr Lee Boon Chye said. Dr Lee also said the task force, which will study proposals to make vaccination compulsory, was given two weeks to propose to the ministry on how to counter anti-vaccine groups.
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