Covid vaccination bonus: Senior citizens, PWDs get free ride to jab centers

THE LOCAL government has offered free rides to senior citizens and those with disabilities who are scheduled for Covid-19 inoculation, as it continues with the mass vaccination program, strictly following the prioritization categories of the Department of Health (DOH).

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The DOH has prioritized those under the A1, A2 and A3 categories. A1 refers to workers in frontline services; A2 are the senior citizens and A3 are those with comorbidity or those with more than one disease or condition which is present in the same person at the same time.

Mayor Beng Climaco, head of the local Covid-19 task force, said over 50,000 people under those categories had been vaccinated. “As soon as we receive the vaccines, we roll this out immediately for the A1, A2 and A3 (categories) in compliance with the DOH prioritization framework,” she said.

The DOH also allowed the vaccination of 898 people who are under A4 category or frontline personnel in essential sectors, including uniformed personnel.

Climaco said there are now more vaccination sites to serve the public more efficiently and among them are the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, SM Mindpro Mall, KCC Mall de Zamboanga, Barangay Santa Maria and Baliwasan multi-purpose covered courts, the Western Mindanao State University and Zamboanga Chong Hua High School. Barangay health centers also offer Covid-19 vaccination.

The mayor thanked all those which offered their facilities as vaccination sites.

To ensure the smooth flow of vaccination process, Climaco said the City Health Office strictly follows the DOH guidelines where five stations are set up in each of all the vaccination sites. 

She said a vaccinee or a person who receives a vaccination will have to pass register their name for verification purposes and then goes to the Counselling (informed consent), then the next step is to the medical screening and finally gets inoculated and stay for at least 15 to 30 minutes for vital signs monitoring which is used to measure basic physiologic parameters such as non-invasive blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and temperature. (Zamboanga Post)

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