Dr. Norman Rabago, Ilocos Norte vaccination head, and Dr. Walberg Samonte, medical director of the Gov. Roque B. Ablan Sr. Memorial Hospital here, volunteered to be injected in public to set as an example to the 87 potential vaccinees who registered in the hospital.
The ceremonial vaccination rollout was witnessed by some employees of the city government led by Mayor Michael Keon and 61 other health care worker-vaccinees of the hospital. In Batac City, some 750 health care workers led by Dr. Jose Orosa, chief of the medical professional staff of the Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center, signed up for the vaccination program but only 80 were expected to get their shots.
“I believe the benefits outweigh the risk and we just need confidence in taking the vaccine,” Manotoc said, adding the first vaccination rollout in Ilocos Norte is indeed a “happy day” as it gives new hope for the people to move on to the new normal.
Why are top doctors/politicians receiving the vaccine? why not the most vulnerable in society? or at least front line nurses?
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