{"id":154435,"date":"2021-07-20T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=154435"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:03:30","slug":"iium-kuantan-leads-the-way-as-ppv-in-pahang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=154435","title":{"rendered":"IIUM Kuantan leads the way as PPV in Pahang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Dhiya Damia&nbsp;Zuhairul&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUANTAN, 20 July&nbsp;2021:&nbsp;The Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre at the International Islamic University Malaysia&nbsp;(SASMEC @ IIUM)&nbsp;here on Monday became the first&nbsp;among institutions of higher learning in Pahang to provide on-site vaccination facilities (Pusat Pemberian Vaksin or PPV). &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SASMEC @ IIUM&#8217;s hospital director, Prof. Datuk Dr. Mohamed Saufi Awang said the university hospital&nbsp;centre,&nbsp;aside from being the first on-site vaccination facility in Pahang, also&nbsp;had a plan&nbsp;to help in vaccination outreach&nbsp;programme&nbsp;to reach a minimum&nbsp;of 80 percent of the population&nbsp;by November this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IIUM PPV coordination head, Assoc. Prof. Dr.&nbsp;Razman&nbsp;Mohd. Rus had ascertained to make sure that&nbsp;the&nbsp;environment at the on-site vaccination centre is&nbsp;spacious and comfortable for&nbsp;the elderly, special needs, and those aged 18 years and above,&nbsp;to come&nbsp;and get vaccinated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its operation that began on 19 July, Dr. Razman had considered providing tents for those who arrived early with chairs at the waiting area, buggies and wheelchairs for the special needs, and a group of volunteers of 300 staff, including 180&nbsp;SASMEC @ IIUM&#8217;s students, to cater to people going in and out of the facilities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fourth-year medical student, Mohammad Azhan Awang, 24, said that all the volunteers have completed important training on how to cater for any emergency that could happen at the university hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the vaccination centre&nbsp;is&nbsp;also capable of holding up to 1,000 vaccine doses daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Mohamed Saufi Awang said that\u00c2\u00a0before\u00c2\u00a0the staff get to be selected to serve as part of the IPT PPV\u00c2\u00a0last month,\u00c2\u00a0vaccination had been performed on them first by\u00c2\u00a0SASMEC @ IIUM\u00c2\u00a0since March\u00c2\u00a02021.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university hospital operates on weekdays between 9 a.m until 5 p.m.***&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dhiya Damia&nbsp;Zuhairul&nbsp;&nbsp; KUANTAN, 20 July&nbsp;2021:&nbsp;The Sultan Ahmad Shah Medical Centre at the International Islamic University Malaysia&nbsp;(SASMEC @ IIUM)&nbsp;here on Monday became the first&nbsp;among institutions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":154438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,134,468],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154435"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154456,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154435\/revisions\/154456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}