16-March-2021 | The Department of Health (DOH) and the National Task Force Against COVID-19 (NTF) today assured the public that the current pace of the COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers is expected to rise exponentially once bulk of the government-procured doses, as well as those from the COVAX Facility arrive by mid-second quarter of this year.
The DOH and NTF further clarified that the current pace of COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers (HCWs) will not be the pace the vaccination will go once full-scale implementation of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Program has been initiated. “It is not logical to compute performance evaluation from the start of the mini roll out. We will be able to get our benchmark vaccination rate when we start our massive community roll out by May and June,” NTF Chief Implementer and Vaccine Czar Secretary Carlito G. Galvez said.
According to Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III, it is expected that the vaccination of HCWs will be steadily paced in order to ensure that hospitals are fully operational and their hospital staff sufficient at any given time, considering that the same healthcare workers being vaccinated are the ones maintaining the integrity of the health system. “In anticipation of local and systemic reactions that can occur as a result of vaccination and may render some vaccinees unable to report to work, hospitals needed to spread out the vaccination of their staff. Hindi pwedeng lahat sabay-sabay because we need to ensure na meron tayong sapat na bilang ng medical frontliners para magpatakbo ng ospital,” Sec. Duque said.
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