They hope that their inoculation would boost the people’s confidence in the vaccine. Dr. Norman Rabago, Ilocos Norte vaccination head, and Dr. Walberg Samonte, medical director of the Gov. Roque B. Ablan Sr. Memorial Hospital (GRBASMH) here, volunteered to be injected in public to set as an example to the 87 potential vaccinees who registered in the hospital. At the Laoag City General Hospital (LCGH), Dr. Crizelda C. Derpo, a medical and infectious specialist, got the first Sinovac vaccine injection. The ceremonial vaccination rollout was witnessed by some employees of the city government led by Mayor Michael Keon and 61 other health care worker-vaccinees of the hospital.