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KUALA LUMPUR: Kinabatangan MP Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin (pictured) has volunteered to be the first to be tested with the Covid-19 vaccine before administering it to the rakyat.
The offer was made after Sarikei MP Wong Ling Biu proposed that politicians and leaders should be the first to be tested with the Covid-19 vaccine before it is available to the public.
“I accept the challenge from Sarikei MP and I offer to be the first to be tested with the vaccine.
“I am not afraid and I want to be healthy.
“A war general should be first in line,” he said while debating the Health Ministry’s allocation under the 2021 Budget at the committee stage in Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday (December 9).
He also questioned why Malaysia had not yet signed agreements to obtain Covid-19 vaccines, as Indonesia has done with China.
“I heard that the vaccine is already available and that Indonesia has signed an agreement with China and other nations.
“Why hasn’t Malaysia done it?” Bung asked.
Earlier during the discussions, Wong had expressed his anger that he and his family were used as experiments when they previously tested positive for Covid-19.
“If the vaccine is available, who else will become experiments?
“The rakyat have proposed that vaccines be tested first on politicians and leaders to ensure their effectiveness before they are administered,” Wong said.
Wong tested positive for Covid-19 on March 15 and slipped into a 42-day coma before recovering and being discharged from Sibu Hospital on May 30.
Wong’s son, national hammer thrower Jackie Wong, was also a Covid-19 patient at Sibu Hospital and was discharged on May 27, after spending 73 days in treatment and observation.
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