Prasarana offers buses and LRT stations as temporary vaccination centres

Prasarana Malaysia Bhd is offering the use of the company’s various assets to the Health Ministry to help speed up the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme.

Amongst the suggestions that they have discussed with the Health Ministry and the Science, Technology, and Innovation Ministry are the use of screens at LRT and monorail stations as well as digital assets in the buses and trains to promote the importance of vaccination.

Prasarana acting president and Chief Executive Officer, Datin Norliah Noah, also offered the use of Rapid buses as mobile vaccination vehicles for Penang and Pahang.

She hopes that the mobile vaccination centres will give easier access to those scheduled to get their vaccination in those 2 states.

Norliah also suggests setting up temporary vaccination centres in LRT stations such as Putra Heights and Awan Besar (in the Klang Valley).

Other than that, she hopes the government would allow Prasarana staff to volunteer at vaccination centres as an effort to lessen the burden of Health Ministry frontliners.

As it is, Prasarana buses are already used by the Penang government to transfer Covid-19-positive patients to designated quarantine centres. Norliah added that the bus drivers ferrying the patients around have completed their vaccination.