Registered person with disabilities (PwD) Jaspal Singh, 50, is updating his will as his Covid-19 vaccination is still far from reach.
Since the amputee registered with the MySejahtera application, he has, so far, been waiting for about 150 days to secure a vaccine appointment date.
And despite the government's assurance that more vaccines will arrive in Perak soon, the father of seven-year-old twins is not taking chances.
He had routinely refreshed and reinstalled the application while trying to reach the relevant agencies personally and through friends, but as new cases rise rapidly in Perak, the former journalist fears that his appointment might not come in time.
Jaspal fears mostly for his wife, Daljeet Kaur, 43, who also has yet to be vaccinated but needs to leave the house to run errands.
"Everywhere, people younger than us are getting vaccinated.
"Perhaps I should write my eulogy that reads 'if only he had been vaccinated on time, Jaspal would have been here with us today'," he said tongue in cheek, while resigning himself to the circumstances facing stragglers under Phase Two of the Covid-19 National Immunisation Programme for seniors, disabled persons and the immunosuppressed.
Jaspal said the PwDs were the worst off as those with comorbidities were susceptible to infectious diseases like Covid-19.
"The list of people dying in hospitals is proof that the Health Ministry and the Social Welfare Department and other agencies have failed them," said the breadwinner for the family of five in Ipoh city centre.
PwD Rights activist Pastor Sia Siew Chin, 55, acknowledged the disparity in vaccination rates in smaller towns and rural areas.
"My wheelchair-bound friend had to get someone to drive him from Merlimau to Jasin (in Melaka) because his appointment was set there. So it is a challenge if you live in an area that does not have access to public transport. There's also insufficient vaccination centres in Merlimau.
"There is a problem of logistics. They (the health authorities) seem reluctant to vaccinate disabled persons outside hospitals and designated centres for PwDs as they need space should an adverse event following immunisation occur.
"I know this because when I first got my (appointment) date, the doctor at the vaccination centre chose not to jab me because of this," said Sia, who has muscular dystrophy.
"They usually refer us to hospitals that have vaccination centres. But with the Delta variant spreading, the system has to be more inclusive, and vaccination for PwDs should be completed in the next three to four weeks," said the founder of the Malaysian Independent Living Association for Disabled.
She said door-to-door vaccination based on hotline requests was limited to Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Penang.
Based on the Social Welfare Department's statistics up to June, Perak ranks third among the states with the highest number of PwDs; out of the 580,633 registered it has 50,741.
The state is behind Selangor (94,271) and Johor (67,804). Other significant populations are in Kedah (50,497), Kelantan (41,042) and Kuala Lumpur (40,762).
There are 115,057 registered PwDs aged 60 and above nationwide. Of the 440,172 registered adult population, 325,115 are aged 18 to 59.
According to the Statistics Department, however, there were 606,978 PwDs registered up to July 28.
The Health Ministry's Github portal said that 444,831 PwDs were vaccinated up to Thursday.
But experts believe the government's data is probably inaccurate as the World Health Organisation estimated that around 15 per cent of the global population live with some form of disability.
Hence many disabled Malays-ians may be missing out on the shots as they are not registered as PwDs under any system.
Earlier last week, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Saarani Mohamad urged Perak folk to be patient and that 250,569 vaccines doses were expected to arrive at the end of the week.
However yesterday (July 31) he said supplies had yet to arrive. He also confirmed widespread speculations when he attributed Operation Surge Capacity (OSC) in the Klang Valley to the slowdown in vaccination rates in other states.
Social activist Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye hoped the government did not lose sight of priority groups outside the Klang Valley as Phase Two was still underway with hundreds of thousands of people still unvaccinated.
"We don't want the OSC in Selangor to come at the expense of high-risk groups.
"No one is safe until everyone has been fully vaccinated," he said, asking the relevant authorities to also provide figures on the registrations under Phase Two and
for the overall target population of the phase in the MySejahtera app.
The Github portal stated that 3,144,175 elderly persons had been vaccinated up to July 29, and 4,648,794 people with comorbidities had been jabbed. It is unclear where the data pools overlap, and the New Sunday Times is seeking clarification on this.
On July 5, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said 604,152 senior citizens had yet to be vaccinated. Phase Two of the vaccination programme was initially slated to end on June 20.