(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“There seems to be a race now among LGUs to secure their own supply of anti-COVID vaccines. The LGUs, particularly in the NCR (National Capital Region), are setting aside a huge chunk of their local budgets for this purpose,” Barbers said Wednesday.
“If that’s the case then we should allow them to do so, but I believe it is important that the vaccines procured by LGUs should only be used to inoculate frontline healthworkers only as a matter of policy,” said the chairman of the Committee on Dangerous Drugs.
(Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers’ Office / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Barbers said he found it “laudable” that some 300 members of the PSG decided to inoculate themselves with the anti-COVID vaccine that had reportedly been donated to them.
“Pabor ako na una sila (PSG) because sila ang frontliner ng Pangulo kaya dapat lang na mauna (I favor them being prioritized because they are the President’s frontliners, so it’s only proper that they are the first),” said the solon, chairman of the Committee on Dangerous Drugs.
Despite this, Barbers still expects the PSG to participate in an inquiry – should the House call for it – regarding the circumstances behind the vaccines, which the lawmaker suspects are smuggled goods.
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