The health minister is scheduled to observe Covid-19 vaccination outreach activities in a Semporna island and to visit Tawau Hospital, after visiting Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu and Paper Hospital.
As health minister, Khairy Jamaluddin is expected to bring the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme with him to MOH, resolving the peculiar incongruity when the vaccine rollout was placed under his leadership in MOSTI.
Technocrats are best left in the civil service, as ministers are answerable to the people for the policies and legislation they make based on their ideology.