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Health workers vaccine hesitancy may affect public confidence, says expert
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 26) A member of the National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) said vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers may negatively affect confidence of the public, causing more roadblocks in encouraging Filipinos to be vaccinated.
Dr. Nina Castillo-Carandang, a sociologist and professor from the University of the Philippines Manila, told a briefing on Friday that reluctance of health workers to be inoculated against coronavirus could send the wrong signal to the general public.
“We always look up to our healthcare workers for good examples of how to take better care of ourselves, so if our healthcare workers are reluctant to accept vaccination then that also sends a signal to the general public,” she pointed out.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 24) The Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday clarified that it did not intend to treat nurses and other healthcare workers as commodities to be traded in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom and Germany.
The agency stressed that it merely wants to ensure that the additional workers to be deployed would have already been vaccinated using doses from the requesting country.