150 of 2,400 NKTI personnel get Sinovac jabs

MANILA, Philippines — Some 150 personnel of the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) have received their first dose of Sinovac’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, a hospital official said.

Out of the more than 2,400 health workers of NKTI, only 150 were to receive CoronaVac, according to NKTI Executive Director Dr. Rose Marie Liquete. She said one-third of them were doctors while the rest are nurses, nursing assistants, and security guards.

“Partial lang ho ito kasi sabi namin meron talaga kaming 2,400 na health workers. Marami naman nagparegister in general na magpapapabakuna, kaya lang syempre nakikiramdaman ‘yung iba at hindi natin alam una kung anong klaseng darating na bakuna,” she said in an interview with ABS-CBN’s teleradyo.

(This was only partial because we have 2,400 health workers. Many of them also registered to get vaccinated. However, others were still waiting on what other vaccine will arrive.)

She also said that the NKTI has five stations to accommodate the 150 workers.

“Ang isang tao, more or less 30 minutes [for vaccination] but meron tayong prescribed na 15 mins to 30 minutes observation pero pwede naming ma-compress yan,” she added.

(Vaccination for a person will take more or less 30 minutes, but we have a prescribed 15 to 30 minutes observation, although we can still compress that.)

NKTI has received 300 doses of CoronaVac. Liquete said Covid-19 cases in NKTI were already decreasing and that the Covid-19 situation in the hospital is “manageable” as of now.

The country has inoculated 2,793 health workers since the vaccination started on Monday, according to vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr.. — Liezelle Soriano Roy, Trainee

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