SOME 6,000 health workers who are Covid frontliners have been included in the initial master list of the local government’s vaccination program.
City Health Officer Dr. Dulce Amor Miravite said that vaccination sites for health frontliners will be in hospitals and health centers, while other priority groups will have a different site for their vaccinations.
Miravite assured the public that a simulation of the vaccination rollout will be scheduled once the inoculation plan is finalized. “Ta hace kita el de aton vaccination plan because it has a lot of components, ta mira kita este uno por uno. Once this is done, we will schedule a simulation,” she said.
Mayor Beng Climaco, head of the local Covid task force, said the City Health Office, in coordination with the Department of Health, is preparing plans for the implementation of the mass vaccination program.
She said the preparation plans include the master list of target individuals to take the first batch of the inoculation, the operation center, storage facilities and the vaccination action plan and information campaign to make people aware of the health benefits and protection they will get from the Covid vaccines.
The local government’s vaccination program, Climaco said, will prioritize healthcare workers, essential and other frontline service providers, and vulnerable populations such as the elderly and poor.
The mayor, who already signed a $2 million (or roughly P100 million) deal with the British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, said local government’s vaccination program will cover 694,696 residents or 70% of the projected 2021 population of 992,423 inhabitants.
The initial P200 million for the purchase of the vaccines are included in the P4.38-billion 2021 Executive Budget of the local government, according to Climaco, who is also a member of the Committee on Vaccine Availment of the League of Cities of the Philippines.
Climaco said the local government will allocate P100 million more for additional Covid vaccines following talks with US-based Johnson & Johnson. (Zamboanga Post)
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