As a last ditch effort to convince vaccination-hesitant residents, the city government of Davao is planning to give incentives if they decide to be vaccinated with the first dose.
Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said the incentives will soon be announced as a step to encourage all Dabawenyos to be protected against Covid-19.
The mayor said this was discussed during a meeting last week after a backlog of 438,000 for the first dose was reported.
“Last week during our meeting this was already discussed because dako na ang atoang backlog sa atoang target sa first doses and we see that nagkadako siya every week ang backlog. So they created a small group and they did a very quick review and assessment of the vaccination program. Nakita nila nga ang atoang kulang sa first doses we are around 438,000 kulang ta. 438,000 ang atoang ginapangita na mga vaccinees,” she explained.
The mayor said it was assessed that these are the people who will not go to the vaccine centers, people who do not believe in vaccines, and the people who are daily wage earners whose work is more important to them.
“Nakita na naa nata sa segment sa population nga kani katong mga tao nga who will not go to the vaccine centers these are the people who do not believe in vaccines and the people who are daily wage earners na mas importante sa ilaha ang trabaho. Naa na ta diha na population. So we are already talking about incentivizing the vaccination for the first dose and there are already suggestion kung paunsa mag incentivize sa atoang first dose,” the mayor said.
The mayor said the city will pilot the plan of “incentivizing” in the two vaccination centers.
“We will try that in some of our centers and we’ll see if there are more people in our vaccination centers. Ang pamaagi or actual na pagbuhat is wala pa but we already discussed earlier to pilot two vaccination centers with our incentives. Tan- awon nato kung mudaghan pa ang magpabakuna sa duh aka vacciantionc enters. What it is (incentives) dili sa nato i-annoucne sa pagkakakaron,” she said.
Mayor Sara also said that there is also a plan to strengthen and expand the city’s mobile vaccination and bring the vaccine closer to the people.
“So we need that the strategy is to bring the vaccine closer to them instead of asking them to go to our vaccine centers,” she said.
