A frontliner disinfects Philippine Rabbit Bus which will be used for the Sundo Bakuna. Contributed photo.
ANGELES CITY — In a move to provide immediate protection to his constituents, Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin Jr. launched Wednesday a blended vaccination scheme fielding six Philippine Rabbit buses and 10 jeepneys to fetch families for vaccination at the City College of Angeles starting August 12.
Lazatin said the “Sundo Bakuna,” an offshoot of the first “Ronda Bakuna Sa Barangay” piloted Wednesday in Barangay Virgen Delos Remedios, will start on Thursday morning from 7 a.m. up to 3 p.m. in Barangay Cutud.
A total of 1,063 residents of Barangay Virgen Delos Remedios were vaccinated on Wednesday using the mobile bus clinic under Ronda Bakuna.
Lazatin’s chief adviser and tactician IC Calaguas said Ronda Bakuna with its mobile bus clinic will continue to vaccinate families in smaller barangays like Virgen Delos Remedios, Agapito Del Rosario and San Jose.
Calaguas said the Philippine Rabbit buses and jeepneys will fetch families from bigger barangays. From Barangay Cutud, Sundo Bakuna will be taken to other barangays such as Pulung Cacutud, Sapa Libutad, Puluing Maragul, Pandan, and Balibago.
Personnel of the gender and development office, city social welfare and development office, the Angeles City Economic Development Investment and Promotions Office, and information and communication technology division will give out vaccination forms a day before the scheduled vaccination at the CCA.
Lazatin earlier said: “We have to extend the inoculation at the grassroots level by reaching out to those unreached.” The local chief executive has vowed no one will be left behind in the vaccination program amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in the country and the threat of the highly transmissible Delta variant.
“Tayo na po ang magsusundo sa mga pami-pamilya upang dalhin sila sa CCA upang magpabakuna. Obserbahan lamang po ang mga health at security protocols upang maiwasan natin ang pagkumpol kumpol,” said the mayor.
The city government is also continuously vaccinating bedridden elderly and persons with disabilities in a bid to reach out to senior citizens who are unable to go to vaccination centers due to old age and health conditions.
The mobile vaccination of senior citizens and PWDs starts with an assessment by doctors and health workers of Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center and City Health Office, a day before their scheduled vaccination.
The Angeles LGU is now currently vaccinating nearly 6,000 individuals on a daily basis in an effort to shield residents from the threat of the new Covid-19 Delta variant which severely affected countries like India and elsewhere.
