Materia Medica Malaysiana

Government hospitals to get Cuban Hepatitis B vaccines

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will import the vaccine for Hepatitis B from Cuba, which will be made available in government hospitals on March 1.
Cuban Ambassador to Malaysia Pedro Monzon Barata said children should be given the priority to get the vaccine.
“We have had the vaccine for 10 years in Cuba but it needed to go through clinical trials before it was registered in Malaysia,” he said at the soft-launch of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Cuba and Malaysia here on Saturday.
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said Cuba had expertise in pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, adding:
“We have been working on bringing in some Cuban products but it took time to get acceptance and approval. I'm happy that the medicine will be available in March.”