COVID: Volunteers Serving Persons With Disabilities Will Also Receive Allowance Increase - Msian PM

PETALING JAYA (Selangor, Malaysia) June 24 (Bernama) -- The allowance increase for healthcare volunteers involved in the COVID-19 vaccination process and management is also given to volunteers serving persons with disabilities (PwD), Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said. He said the OKU Sentral drive-through vaccination centre here, for example, currently has approximately 100 volunteers helping to manage and ensure smooth running of the COVID-19 vaccination process involving the PwD. “The daily allowance increase from RM50 to RM100 is also given to these volunteers who numbered about 100 now and counting,” he told a press conference after visiting the OKU Sentral drive-though PPV at Menara Sime Darby Plantation here Thursday. Also present was OKU Sentral president Senator Ras Adiba Radzi. At a press conference on June 22, the Prime Minister announced that the daily allowance for healthcare volunteers involved in the COVID-19 vaccination process and management has been increased to RM100 from RM50, in appreciation of their contributions. --BERNAMA