Angeles City helps vaccinate folk in nearby town

Angeles City’s mobile bus clinic arrives at the Pampanga State Agricultural University in Magalang, Pampanga for its first out-of-the-city COVID-19 inoculation tour. | Photo from the Angeles City government

ANGELES CITY––The city government dispatched Wednesday, Nov. 3, a mobile bus clinic to Magalang town to inoculate staff, residents, and some students of the Pampanga State Agricultural University (PSAU).

Mayor Carmelo Lazatin Jr. stated that those to be vaccinated were several Army reservists and residents in the 500-hectare PSAU.

“I promised to lend the city’s mobile vaccination buses and the working staff to neighboring towns to help them in their vaccination drives,” he said.

Irish Calaguas, Lazatin’s chief adviser and head implementer of the city’s vaccination program, said in a text message that about 1,500 persons were to be jabbed Wednesday.

“Tomorrow, the city’s mobile bus clinic 1 will return to the state university to vaccinate another 1,500 individuals there,” she said.

Lazatin said the city government vaccinates an average of 10,000 persons per day through the “Ronda Bakuna” and “Sundo Bakuna” programs.

“We can vaccinate an average of 10,000 residents daily because the city government has 400 vaccination staff who work hard every day for the said purpose,” he said.

The city government also started its community-based Measles, Rubella, Tetanus, and Diphtheria vaccination of children aged 6-7 years and 12-13 years. It aims to vaccinate eligible kids in all 33 villages here.

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