More Transparency Over Vaccine Procurement Process?

Kelvin Yii, MP for Kuching

24-Dec-20 07:17

More Transparency Over Vaccine Procurement Process?

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The government has been in talks with various pharmaceutical companies on the vaccine procurement, but is there sufficient scrutiny of the process? Kelvin Yii, MP for Kuching and a member of the parliamentary select committee on health, science and innovation, weighs in on this, as well as what further transparency measures he hopes to see.

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Presented by: Roshan Kanesan, Wong Shou Ning

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Tags: covid-19, vaccine, procurement, transparency, parliamentary select committee,

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