The City Health Office of Digos City has so far enlisted 15,325 senior citizens in its masterlist of eligible population of the A2 priority group for the COVID-19 vaccination.
CHO Digos City Immunization Program Coordinator Kristina Leigh Davo bared that from the masterlist, 254 senior citizens have been identified as bed ridden and ten (10) are under home care.
Davo said that this sub-sector of the A2 priority group will be prioritized when the vaccination starts for the senior citizens.
She said that a mobile team composing of doctors, nurses and midwives, will reach out to the homes of those bed ridden and under home care, to administer the vaccination.
The majority of the senior citizens who are willing to be vaccinated will be transported from their respective barangay to the Digos City gymnasium or Davao del Sur Provincial Hospital as the identified vaccination sites.
Davo disclosed that the barangay officials have agreed to transport their elderlies to the vaccination areas during the scheduled dates.
She said that transporting the vaccinees is a big challenge in the vaccination drive, especially in the far-flung areas like Barangay Kapatagan.
As of now, health education, meetings and barangay assemblies are being conducted at the barangay level to raise awareness and understanding on the importance of vaccination among the senior citizens from 26 barangays in the city.
Meanwhile, Davo updated that the CHO is set to administer the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine for 231 health care frontliners on Thursday (May 6) and Friday (May 7).
Another batch of 500 vaccinees will get their 2nd jab next week.
As of May 3, a total of 1,997 health care frontliners including those from the private hospitals in the city have been vaccinated.
The figure represents 77 per cent of the 2,584 eligible population of the A1 priority group.
Davo said that CHO Digos is expecting to receive another batch of the Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccines as 3,500 vials have arrived Tuesday (May 4) in the province.
The vaccines are intended for the remaining health care frontline workers who are yet to receive the 1st and 2nd dose. (PIA-XI/Carina L. Cayon)
