“I was told by the LGU that they are getting the vaccine for us,” said CSMC chief medical officer Dr. Zenaida Javier-Uy in an interview with CNN Philippines.
[Translation: The national government will allocate Pfizer vaccines for San Juan and for other Metro Manila LGUs. The first batch of Pfizer vaccines that will arrive in San Juan are meant for healthcare workers, medical frontliners, wherein the Cardinal Santos is included.] She added that 3,600 doses of vaccines will be allocated to the hospital’s 1,800 healthcare workers and other employees in contact with patients.
Aside from the Pfizer vaccines, 5.5 million up to 9.2 million doses of vaccine from AstraZeneca are expected to arrive within the first quarter of the year. Meanwhile, the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines, Inc. said that it has not yet received any word from the government on how many vaccine doses will private hospitals get.
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