Less than a week before the anticipated arrival of 117,000 doses of Pfizer vaccines, government agencies practice the steps once the shipment arrives at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and how it will be brought and stored at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine in Muntinlupa City.
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Mock COVID-19 vaccines bilang bahagi ng simulation ng vaccine cluster, nakarating na sa Research Institute for Tropical Medicine sa Muntinlupa. | via Naomi Tiburcio/PTV
MUNTINLUPA CITY, Feb. 9 The Philippine Government, through a coordinated network of stakeholders composed of National Government Agencies and private sector partners, today conducted a full-scale simulation exercise of vaccine deployment to showcase the country’s readiness for COVID-19 vaccine deployment. The simulation exercise demonstrated the general function and responsibilities of the national and regional vaccine operations centers and stakeholders, and aimed to identify potential challenges in the vaccine delivery, handling, transport, and cold chain management, in anticipation of the expected arrival of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines from COVAX Facility by mid of February.
February 09, 2021 THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 filed on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, criminal charges against eight officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in Central Visayas (Philhealth 7) and three officers and employees of Chong Hua Hospital in Cebu City for their alleged failure to identify falsified documents that made a patient appear that he tested positive for Covid-19 and was a frontliner.
The employees of Chong Hua Hospital (CHH) are the second batch of medical workers that the NBI 7 has charged in over three months.
The NBI 7, on Oct. 29, 2020, filed graft charges against four officers of Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu City and eight officials of Philhealth 7 for their alleged involvement in Covid-19 benefit claims anomalies.
Three years after the launching of the first Malasakit Center in the Philippines, the one-stop service of government services focused on healthcare and medical financial assistance has reached another milestone.
The 100th Malasakit Center opened its doors at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Muntinlupa City on Feb. 2.
This is the 54th Malasakit Center in Luzon.
There are 22 centers in the Visayas and 24 in Mindanao.
Sen. Christopher Lawrence Bong Go, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Sec. Michael Lloyd Dino, and the officials of the hospital and the local government unit attended the launching.
Over the past three years, Malasakit Center has served more than two million Filipinos nationwide, majority of those experienced a zero-balance billing in their hospital bills.