She said the drive-through PPV is expected to operate next week at a location in the Klang Valley in collaboration with the private sector.

“This (drive-through) is an alternative to facilitate and expedite the vaccination exercise of the disabled community,” she told reporters after reviewing the implementation of the OKU vaccination programme at the Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) Complex here.

Rina said about 577,000 OKU folks had registered for vaccination with the social welfare department and 195,395 through the MySejahtera application.

She said there were still many who had yet to register, and the ministry was working with non-governmental organisations and other related associations to speed up the registration process for the disabled community.

At the same time, she said, the ministry through the welfare department had submitted the names and details of 446,000 OKU folks registered in the Disability Information Management System to the relevant parties to ensure that individuals in the target group would not be sidelined from getting the vaccine.

To facilitate registration, MAB had also set up a special call centre at 03-2272 2677 and had received 1,900 applications so far, she said.

She said the PPV at MAB is expected to administer 200 doses of vaccines daily, with the support of 20 welfare department volunteers to assist the paramedics and doctors on duty.

According to the national Covid-19 immunisation programme, the second phase of vaccination from April to August will target 9.4 million senior citizens, vulnerable groups and the disabled community.