Besides Covid features, SELangkah can soon keep one’s electronic health record and data – including BMI, blood sugar etc, plus prescriptions – besides hosting an online pharmacy and e-wallet.
Amirudin Shari also announced an allocation of RM200,000 under the state’s 2022 budget for eye screening of schoolchildren in Selangor after a year of virtual learning.
Selangor is also replacing its Peduli Sihat Insurance Scheme with the Iltizam Selangor Sihat programme for better health coverage, with an RM46 million allocation to benefit 90,000 recipients.
Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud says while Pfizer is the preferable Covid-19 vaccine for teens, MOH has no objections to the state’s plan to vaccinate teens using Sinovac.
Selangor reported 1,678 brought-in-dead (BID) cases as of Sept 21, comprising foreign citizens and ethnic minorities (40.8%), Malays (34.9%), ethnic Chinese (13.8%), and ethnic Indians (10.5%).
Selangor’s 7.3% share of double-jabbed people in 5,725 Covid-19 deaths from June 1-Sept 1 is seven times higher than 1.2% in England and less than 1% in the United States.