QC community frontliners from 6th District receive COVID-19 vaccine
Community frontliners in Brgy Culiat in District 6, Quezon City receive the Covid-19 shots. The vaccination happened at Placido Del Mundo Elementary School on March 23 where members of the Barangay Health Emergency Emergency Response Team (BHERT), barangay health workers (BHWs), and personnel and contact tracers of the Quezon City Health Department (QCDH) received their COVID-19 shots. Photo courtesy of Melinda Rivera Macaya
MANILA, Philippines – Community frontliners were the first to get inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine as the vaccination program rolled out in Quezon City’s sixth district.
The vaccination happened at Placido Del Mundo Elementary School on March 22 where members of the Barangay Health Emergency Emergency Response Team (BHERT), barangay health workers (BHWs), and personnel and contact tracers of the Quezon City Health Department (QCDH) received their COVID-19 shots.
According to the QCDH, the city targets to inoculate at least 6,000 frontliners who are among the priority list of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF).
These include health care workers of public and private clinics, diagnostic laboratories, home for the aged facilities, and rehabilitation centers, personnel of the City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU), and responders from the QC Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
Aside from Placido Elementary School in District 6, the local government has also delegated vaccination centers in every district:
District 1 – Quezon City General Hospital;
District 2 – Batasan Hills National High School;
District 3 – Emilio Aguinaldo Elementary School;
District 4 – St. Luke’s Medical Center grounds; and
District 5 – Kaligayahan Multi-purpose Hall.
QCDH said that these centers will be open from Monday to Wednesday to give vaccine shots to frontliners.
“Parating na po ang ilaw sa dulo ng tunnel,” Quezon City 6th District Rep. Kit Belmonte said.
(The light at the end of the tunnel is coming now.)
Belmonte also reminded the public that getting vaccinated and following the minimum health protocols will be our most effective defense against COVID-19. – Liezelle Soriano Roy, INQUIRER.net trainee
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