National Task Force (NTF) Chief Deputy Chief Implementer Vince Dizon on Thursday, Feb. 11, said there will be a slight delay on the arrival of the first 117,000 Pfizer vaccines in the country.
February 11, 2021 AS THE mass Covid-19 vaccination approaches, officials of the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) admitted that some of their workers are having reservations about getting the Covid-19 vaccine due to various reasons.
SPMC officer-in-charge Dr. Ricardo Audan said in a press conference right after the Covid-19 vaccination simulation exercise on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, that only 62 percent or an estimated 3,200 out of the 5,000 SPMC workers, both medical and non-medical frontliners, have signed up for the pre-vaccination registration.
He added that these numbers might even decrease during the vaccination day, although he assumes that these workers were willing to volunteer to get vaccinated as they gave their consent in the registration conducted online.
Published February 11, 2021, 2:31 PM
DAVAO CITY – More than half of the 5,000 employees of the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) here are willing to get vaccinated, health officials said Wednesday.
In a press briefing during the simulation exercise for the vaccination program, Dr. Ricardo Audan, SPMC officer-in-charge, said: “Ang nakaregister sa amo is 62 percent, mga 3,200 siguro na employees ang nakaregister for the vaccination (Those who have registered from our employees is 62 percent, that’s around 3,200 employees who have registered for the vaccination).”
Dr. Pamela Ferrer, SPMC chair of the vaccination committee, said they have submitted the masterlist to the Department of Health.
MANILA, Feb. 11 — Medical personnel of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) are ready to get their COVID-19 vaccine shots.In a virtual presser on Thursday, UP-PGH medical director, Dr. Gerardo “Gap” Legaspi said that 4,805 hospital staff have given.