Mandaue identifies 22 vaccination sites

Mandaue City Councilor Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, overseer of the vaccination, immunization and coordination team of city’s COVID-19 vaccine board, says that the city will use public schools and barangay gymnasiums as vacccination sites. | Mary Rose Sagarino

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City government has identified 22 vaccination sites

City Councilor Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, overseer of the vaccination, immunization and coordination team of the city’s COVID-19 vaccine board, said that the the identified vaccination centers were public schools and gymnasiums.

Ruiz said that for those barangays that had public schools located in their areas, the vaccination would be done there, while the barangay gymnasiums would be used for those barangays without public schools in their areas.

The Mandaue City Complex will be the vaccination site for three barangays namely Cambaro, Alang-Alang, and Centro.

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She said this Friday, March 12, they would inspect all the vaccination sites to assess the placements of the security personnel, the step-by-step process, among others.

“Tan-awon nato ang set-up, ang security. Tan-awon nato didto kay maghimo naman ta og planning asa dapit ang una musulod, mag monitor sa patient, ari mag injection, ania maghuwat usa after sa injection ug asa sad ang mga security,” said Ruiz.

(We will check the set-up and security. We will check the area because we will plan where they will first enter, the person to monitor the patient, what part of the area where they will be injected, where will they wait after the injection and where the security persons will be situated.)

Ruiz said the COVID-19 vaccine board had different teams handling the different aspects of the vaccination such as the planning and logistics team for the logistic supplies such as the syringes, personnel protective equipment (PPEs), among others, the Vaccination Immunization and Coordination team for the actual days of the immunization, and many others. 

“So ako’ng gusto ipahibaw sa taga Mandaue nga naglihok ta, and we will be ready before the end of the month,” she said.

(I would just like to inform those from Mandaue that we are working and we will be ready before the end of the month.)

She said about 40,000 individuals would be prioritized to receive the vaccine, 2,000 of which would be medical workers.

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