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COVID VACCINATIONS. Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center health workers were among the first in the Visayas to be inoculated with Sinovac’s vaccine on Thursday, March 4, 2021. / Amper Campana
+ March 04, 2021 THOUGH hesitant at first, the number of healthcare workers (HCWs) at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City who consented to be inoculated with Sinovac’s CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine has increased as of Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
VSMMC chief Dr. Gerardo Aquino Jr. said 1,246 HCWs of the hospital have already agreed to be vaccinated.
Aquino, 56, was the first to get the Sinovac vaccine during a ceremony for the first vaccine rollout in the Visayas and Mindanao held inside the new Center for Behavioral Sciences building of the VSMMC at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.
SunStar More VSMMC healthcare workers say yes to Sinovac
COVID VACCINATIONS. Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center health workers were among the first in the Visayas to be inoculated with Sinovac’s vaccine on Thursday, March 4, 2021. / Amper Campana
+ March 04, 2021 THOUGH hesitant at first, the number of healthcare workers (HCWs) at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) in Cebu City who consented to be inoculated with Sinovac’s CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine has increased as of Wednesday, March 3, 2021.
VSMMC chief Dr. Gerardo Aquino Jr. said 1,246 HCWs of the hospital have already agreed to be vaccinated.
Aquino, 56, was the first to get the Sinovac vaccine during a ceremony for the first vaccine rollout in the Visayas and Mindanao held inside the new Center for Behavioral Sciences building of the VSMMC at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.
CEBU CITY – The COVID-19 vaccination program in Cebu was underway yesterday in a ceremony that was described as the “beginning of the end of the pandemic.” Dr. Gerardo Aquino Jr., medical chief of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC), received Sinovac’s CoronaVac, becoming the first rec
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Hannah Cavalida, charge nurse
Ivy Marie Tariman, staff nurse
+ February 21, 2021 FOR the Gothong Southern Group of Companies, 2020 was a time of change, a year of many firsts. While trying its best to roll with the punches brought by the pandemic, the company did not forget to give back and recognize those working in the front lines during this global health crisis.
Since the lockdown, Gothong Southern Foundation (GSF) has launched a series of initiatives to help Cebu’s health workers in its own way.
A sweet pairing
In partnership with Fujinoya Cafe and Bar, a specialty coffee and pastry shop under the Gothong Southern portfolio, a total of 1,950 coffee and cookie sets were given to hospital staff from August to October 2020. Recipients of these sweet treats and delicious coffee include the University of Cebu Medical Center, Perpetual Succour Hospital, Chong Hua Hospital Fuente and Mandaue, Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital and Vicente Sotto Memorial