BALANGA CITY — Vaccination against the coronavirus disease continued on the fifth day Friday at the annex of the government-run Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center here without any hitches.
Dr. Noel Lacsamana, BGHMC Covid point person/coordinator, said they have inoculated 1,138 of the targeted 1,342 BGHMC workers or corresponding to 85 percent of all employees of the state-operated hospital.
BGHMC has been designated as an exclusive facility for Covid–19 patients and workers in said hospital were the first recipients of Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines allotted by the Department of Health.
DOH delivered to BGHMC 417 doses of CoronaVac last Saturday and 1,420 doses of AstraZeneca the following Monday.
Lacsamana said they started vaccination of BGHMC employees Monday while those from the JC Payumo Memorial District Hospital from Dinalupihan and the Mariveles District Hospital Friday.
Targeted for vaccination are 288 workers from the Dinalupihan hospital and 204 from MDH.
Lacsamana said that target to finish first are priority hospitals and second priority hospitals from March 8 to12, 2021. Continuation will likely be held at the Bataan People’s Center that was designated as mass vaccination area, he said.
“Negative,” was Lacsamana’s answer when asked if there were adverse effects on those already vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the provincial health office reported Friday that for Wednesday and Thursday, there were 10 new confirmed cases and four recoveries from Covid – 19 in the province.
PHO chief Dr. Rosanna Buccahan said the number of confirmed cases reached 3,962 while those who recovered at 3,813.
Active cases, she said, rose to 59 while the number of fatalities from the virus stayed at 90.
The total number of those tested for Covid–19 was placed at 47,237 with 43,202 already found negative, Buccahan said.
