MAYOR BENG Climaco said the national government has approved her request to extend the services of Covid-19 contact tracers as well as medical frontliners until the end of the year.
Climaco said Social
Welfare Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista, who is also the Cabinet Officer
for Regional Development and Security, has sent her a letter approving the
extension of the services of both the contact tracers and healthcare workers.
She said the Department of Health (DOH) also approved her request for more Rapid Antigen Test Kits and personal protective equipment; and additional vaccines for those under the A4 category list in the government’s mass inoculation program.
Climaco made the request since last year, saying
there is a dire need to extend the services
of local contact tracers as the local government continues to battle the spread
of the deadly respiratory disease, especially now that there are new strains of
coronavirus, one of them the more contagious Delta variant which first appeared
in India and has spread around the globe.
The mayor,
who heads the local Covid-19 task force, said one of their challenges has
always been the shortage of healthcare workers, as well as effective contact
tracing.
“Our country
is still suffering from Covid-19 pandemic and while it is true that our country
is slowly opening up the economy with concomitant increased of people mobility,
the virus is still here and its threat to our health and safety is ever
present.
Thus, the
need to extend the services of Covid-related personnel until December 2021,”
the mayor emphasized in her previous letters to the DOH and the Department of
the Interior and Local Government.
Climaco has
repeatedly expressed her gratitude to the contact tracers and commended them
for their dedication in helping the City Health Office. (Zamboanga Post)
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