Cardinal Santos Medical Center has started its COVID-19 mass inoculation exactly a year after the first case of local transmission was admitted in the facility.
Among the recipients of CoronaVac is Dr. Niῆo Gil Oconer, a pulmonologist who handled the case of Patient No. 5 or the first local transmission case in the country. Oconer is one of more than 1,000 healthcare workers and non-medical frontline workers included in the vaccination list of CSMC.
According to Dr. Zenaida Javier-Uy, SVP and Chief Medical Officer, no one has refused the Sinovac-developed vaccine despite the arrival of AstraZeneca vaccine doses from the COVAX Facility. The confidence on the vaccine is high, with 13 senior citizens willing to get inoculated despite its non-recommendation to the elderly population.
The private hospital was allocated 1,300 doses and has already requested for doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Meanwhile, Marikina Mayor Marcy Teodoro also asked for the same vaccine to be added to his city’s allocation of around 1,000 doses of CoronaVac. – Report from Cleizl Pardilla
