ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH) Region 6 has identified the hospitals here that received part of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines delivered to the city by the department’s central office.
The other day, Mayor Jerry Treñas demanded a full accounting from DOH-6. He said while the central office claimed 84,224 doses were sent, the city government actually received only 66,544 doses.
In her reply, DOH-6 director Emilia Monicimpo clarified that 13,512 doses of Sinovac vaccines and 4,560 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines were distributed to the following private and government hospitals:
* Iloilo Doctor’s Hospital – 2,300 Sinovac doses, 600 AstraZeneca doses
* Iloilo Mission Hospital – 387 Sinovac doses, 800 AstraZeneca doses
* Medicus Medical Center – 1,060 Sinovac doses, 140 AstraZeneca doses
* Metro Iloilo Hospital and Medical Center – 810 Sinovac doses, 320 AstraZeneca doses
* Philippine National Police Infirmary – PRO-6 Health Services (delivered to St. Paul’s Hospital as their vaccination site) – 60 Sinovac doses
* QualiMed Hospital – 690 Sinovac doses, 180 AstraZeneca doses
* Seamen’s Hospital – 440 Sinovac doses
* St. Paul’s Hospital Iloilo – 2,497 Sinovac doses, 580 AstraZeneca doses
* The Medical City – 864 Sinovac doses, 360 AstraZeneca doses
* West Visayas State University Medical Center –1,804 Sinovac doses, 680 AstraZeneca doses
* Western Visayas Medical Center – 2,600 Sinovac doses, 900 AstraZeneca doses
On Tuesday night, Dr. Marie Jocelyn Te of DOH-6 said these doses, instead of being released to the city government, were forwarded to hospitals.
“Ang natabu, from DOH may allocation ‘na ang mga hospitals. Kay ara sa master-list nga under sa city, so ginhatag na lang direkta,” Te said.
This move made more sense, she added.
“Para indi na mabudlayan [nga] magkadto pa sa city (government), tapos ang city (government) pa ma-distribute sa hospitals. Doble karon ang ila ubra. Also, basi ma-overwhelm ang cold room nila,” Te added.
But Monicimpo’s letter obliquely told Treñas this should have been the job of the Iloilo City Local Vaccine Operations Center (LVOC), but the center failed to do so.
She pointed out the National Task Force (NTF) Memorandum Circular No.05-2021 entitled, “Adaptation and Implementation of the Philippine’s National Deployment and Vaccination Plan of COVID-19 Vaccines” issued on Jan. 26, 2021.
Under the memorandum circular, LVOCs shall oversee all the implementing units such as government hospitals (both public and private), private clinics, government agencies, and rural health units.
As such, according to Monicimpo, all activities of the implementing units shall be monitored by the LVOC to ensure “timely and appropriate” implementation of the vaccination program./PN
