CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Vaccination Board said it has partnered with a private emergency response firm to conduct house-to-house vaccination for bedridden and persons who could not walk in a bid to ramp up Covid-19 inoculation for the A3 category or persons with comorbidity here.
Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, head of Cebu City Health
Department, said bringing the vaccines to the doorstep of sick people is the
answer to the many requests they received from the residents to inoculate their
loved ones who are staying in their beds or those who could not travel to
vaccination sites.
Ibones said the local government partnered with the
Emergency Rescue Unit Foundation (ERUF) and the Cebu Medical Society for the
project.
He said bedridden individuals need to register
online at pabakunata.com web portal and call ERUF’s hotline 161 or 233-8300 or
0918-9210000.
“Actually, there are bedridden members or members
of the family who really wanted to be vaccinated but they find it difficult to
go to the vaccination site because of their condition,” Ibones told the
Philippine News Agency.
The project, he said, is meant for those suffering
from different comorbidities like hypertension, diabetes, stroke, among others,
who would stand to be exposed to other diseases if they step out of their
houses to receive the vaccine.
For the house-to-house campaign, vaccinators will
administer the single-dose Johnson & Johnson to the recipients, but Ibones
clarified that other brands will also be used if needed. “Individuals who are
suffering illnesses and are staying at home stand the risk of getting infected
with Covid-19 if they will be left off the vaccination rollout,” he said.
Ibones urged city residents not to go out to jog and do leisure biking now that the number of Covid-19 cases here is high. “If you want to exercise, you can do it at home now that we are in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus,” he said. (John Rey Saavedra)
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