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Petronas donates essential items to jab centre

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Aslam (second left, bottom row) hands over the items to Dr Chung, witnessed by Tiong (centre) at Kelab Kidurong.

BINTULU: Petronas has donated several essential items to boost the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK) in Bintulu.

The donations were presented to the Bintulu Division Health Office today (Tuesday) by Petronas’ subsidiary companies, namely, Malaysia LNG Group of Companies and Petronas LNG 9 Sdn Bhd, Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd- Sarawak Gas and Asean Bintulu Fertiliser Sdn Bhd (ABF).

They consisted of eight laptops, 20 sets of queue-up stands and five units of medical grade vaccine cooler boxes worth RM52,000.

ABF managing director Aslam Khan Mohater Khan handed over the items to Bintulu Division health officer Dr Melvin Chung at the newly set up Oil and Gas Industry Vaccination Centre in Kidurong.

“We are doing our part to help accelerate the pace of Covid-19 national immunisation programme to assist the country’s progress towards achieving herd immunity.

“This initiative is also part of Petronas’ efforts to safeguard the wellbeing of local communities during the pandemic. In addition, this vaccination centre will inject 4,800 oil and gas workers,” said Aslam.

He added that the subsidiaries had previously contributed 6,200 disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) items to frontliners from six agencies – Bintulu General Hospital, Bintulu Police Department, Bintulu Health Office, Rela Bintulu, Bomba Bintulu and Civil Defence Force Bintulu.

“Petronas’ contributions to curb Covid-19 transmission here also included medical and food supplies to frontliners and quarantine centres, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines to the Bintulu Disaster Management Committee, eight laptops for the PICK in Tatau and Sebauh districts, reagent test kits to the Bintulu Hospital as well as school supplies and personal hygiene kits to primary school students,” Aslam disclosed.

Also present were Bintulu MP Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing; MLNG senior general manager Shariman Daud; Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd – Sarawak Gas general manager Shamsawi Ahmad; Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd — Sarawak Gas head of health, safety and environment Cecilia Lakai and Petronas Sarawak senior manager Norazibah Rabu.

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