The Davao Oriental Provincial Medical Center, St. Camillus Hospital and the Isolation facility of the Divine Healer (Milagrosa ACS) in the City of Mati; and Lupon Municipal Isolation Facility will be the first ones that would benefit from the initial 600 doses of Sinovac vaccines that arrived at the Davao Oriental Provincial Medical Center (DOPMC) Monday, March 8. This according to Mati City Information Office.
The Mati City Information Office explains that the said vaccines will be distributed as follows — DOPMC with 358 doses, St. Camillus Hospital with 72 doses, ACS Mati while the temporary treatment and monitoring facilities in the municipality of Lupon will share the remaining 170 doses.
Temporary treatment and monitoring facilities in other areas of the province will be included in the next batches of vaccines that will arrive.
The press release bared that the 600 doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived at the DOPMC noontime Monday and was received by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Reden Bersaldo and Governor Nelson Dayanghirang.
The vaccines were escorted from Davao City by the DOH XI, PNP, Army, the Davao Oriental Provincial Health Office, and Bureau of Fire Protection to ensure the safety of the vaccines. Before the vaccines arrived, the PHO, together with the BFP, conducted a safety inspection of the cold storage rooms and the vaccination area, the press release said.
The rollout of the vaccines is set on March 10 at the Davao Oriental State College of Science and Technology.
A total of 90 people from St. Camillus Hospital, 300 people from DOPMC, and 37 health care staff from the Alternate Care Site Isolation Facility of Mati City are set to be vaccinated. The remaining number of vaccines will be distributed to the next priorities.
The press release explained that the distribution of vaccines is based on the clustering of the priority list, in which the COVID-19 referral hospitals came in first, hospitals catering to COVID-19 cases came in second. These are followed by quarantine or isolation facilities, remaining hospitals, government-owned community-based primary care facilities, remaining healthcare facilities thru LGU, and closed healthcare institutions.
Dr. Bersaldo said that the cold storage rooms and vaccination teams per LGU are now ready for the vaccination day. A simulation exercise will be conducted before the scheduled rollout to have an organized flow of the process of the vaccination.
The City of Mati LGU under Mayor Michelle Nakpil Rabat has meanwhile allocated a total of P20 million for purchase of syringes and other materials needed for the massive vaccination. Of which, 17 million will be allocated for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines, the press release revealed.
The City of Mati Incident Management Team had earlier identified 24,000 Matinians under the “vulnerable sectors” consist of health frontliners, senior citizens, indigents, and uniformed personnel.
Mayor Michelle Nakpil Rabat however said they target to inoculate a total of 100,000 Matinians by the end of this year, the press release concluded.
Source: LGU Mati City
