Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III delivers the first COVID-19 vaccine jab at Lung Center of the Philippines in Quezon City. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) The success of the Philippines first vaccination rollout depends primarily on the support of healthcare workers and other medical frontliners working in major referral hospitals, and the public as well, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said today.
Duque, who joined other national and local government officials in the historic ceremonial inoculation program at the Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP) in Quezon City on Monday, said the deployment of quality-assured, safe and effective CoronaVax vaccines to thousands of frontline workers across the country, could only be realized if the public will take part in this massive immunization program.
Dozens of medical frontliners across six state hospitals in Metro Manila were vaccinated today. Alongside them, a handful of government officials were also inoculated with the limited doses of Sinovac vaccines donated by China.
Secretary Vince Dizon throws a victory sign after being vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine from China s Sinovac Biotech pharmaceutical. (DOH photo)
CALOOCAN CITY, March 1 (PIA) The country s COVID-19 Testing Czar and National Task Force (NTF) Deputy Chief Implementer Secretary Vince Dizon on Monday personally joined the chief and around 200 initial medical frontline workers of the Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium in Tala, Caloocan City in getting the first shots of the coronavirus vaccine.
Posing with a victory sign after receiving the vaccine, Dizon had sat down with Dr. Alfonso Victorino Famaran, Jr., Medical Center Chief II, to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this morning, along with 180 health workers, who all hailed and expressed confidence in the donated CoronaVac vaccine from China s Sinovac Biotech.
HTAC never intended to have same function as FDA
Published 2 months ago
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after Vice President Leni Robredo backed a group of doctors from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) in calling for a further review of Covid-19 vaccines developed by China-based Sinovac. (PCOO file photo)
MANILA – The Universal Health Care (UHC) law never intended to give the Health Technology Assessment Council (HTAC) advisory board the same function as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Philippines, Malacañang said Monday.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after Vice President Leni Robredo backed a group of doctors from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) in calling for a further review of Covid-19 vaccines developed by China-based Sinovac.
The Philippines’ coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tally rose to 578,381 on Monday after the Department of Health announced 2,037 new infections as one laboratory failed to submit data on time. This is the fifth consecutive day where more than 2,000 cases were reported.