The city government of Davao has started to roll out the family profiling in some barangays that have low vaccination rate last week.
Vaccination clusters will be bringing mobile barangay house-to-house vaccination including boosters to cover all those unvaccinated residents young and adults.
Davao City Covid-19 Task Force spokesperson Dr. Michelle Schlosser said based on their initial profiling data for the 5 to 11 years old group, 2,829 individuals are still unvaccinated while for 12 to 17 years old there are 1,132 unvaccinated and for those aged 18 years old and above the unvaccinated is 2,675 and 9,620 individuals still do not receive their booster shots.
“We continue to account for those na wala pa nabakunahan and this data will be forwarded sa atoang vaccination cluster so that they can use this also sa atoang mobile vaccination pod sa respective barangays in partnership with USAID and UNICEF,” Schlosser said over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR).
She said this data from the family profiling activity can be used by the Vaccination Cluster to visit the households in the barangays with constituents that have not been vaccinated and boostered yet.
“Every day naga dungag ta ug number or data as to kinsa wala pa nabakunahan ug na booster,” she said.
The profiling aims to cover barangays that have not yet reached 50 percent of their constituents who have been vaccinated.
“Tanan istratehiya na maadto sila nato ginabuhat na nato. This family profiling data kay magamit siya sa atoang vaccination cluster para maadtuan ang respective barangays ug mga panimalay nga wala nabakunahan ug wala na booster. We still have barangays na wala pa nakaabot ug 50 percent ang nabakunahan sa ilahang constituents and that is one of the purposes of profiling,” Schlosser said.
Meanwhile, the city will be conducting also mobile vaccination in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies in Davao City and is currently waiting for their available schedule for vaccination.
“We have a meeting with BPOs last week and we are partnering with them kay isa sila sa pinakadaghan ug employees dinhi sa Davao City and we want to make sure na kanang ilang mga employees are fully vaccinated and boostered. We will be conducting mobile vaccination sa ilahang respective BPO offices and we are waiting for the schedule na available nila,” she said.
Schlosser also said they will also bring the mobile vaccination to the restaurants and other private establishments including malls to cover their employees.
“All other establishments na mag-request ug mobile vaccination labi na sa mga naa’y nag wait na vaccinees. Even if 50 lang ka na vaccines, we will be visiting that establishment para mapaduol na gyud sa ilaha ang vaccination,” she said.
She said although the data is showing that most Dabawenyos are already fully vaccinated it is not enough as they still need to get their booster shot.
“Kinahanglan ta magpa booster mao na atong ginapa-paspasan ug ginapa-stregnthen ang activity nato that is the reason why we are going down to their respective offices kay para mapaduol sa ilaha ug wala na’y rason na mudili sila kay wala sila’y time,” she said.
