SOME 648 medical frontliners in Bacolod City were already vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine against Covid-19.
Emergency Operations Center (EOC) records showed as of March 9, a total of 164 medical frontliners from Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH) received their first dose of the Sinovac vaccine.
A total of 358 medical frontliners from Riverside Medical Center were also vaccinated; Bacolod Adventist Medical Center (BAMC) with 1; The Doctors Hospital, Inc. (TDHI), 26; South Bacolod General Hospital (SBGH), 62; and EOC with 34 health workers.
Vaccination was also held Wednesday for medical frontliners from two hospitals at Bacolod Queen of Mercy Hospital (BQMH) and Metro Bacolod Hospital, but the data was not yet available as Wednesday evening.
A total of 6,300 doses of Sinovac vaccines intended for medical frontliners from CLMMRH and Riverside Medical Center arrived in Bacolod City last week. The two hospitals were identified as Level-3 Covid-19 facilities and medical frontliners were the priority of the Covid-19 vaccine.
These vaccines were allotted by the National Government to prioritize first medical frontliners assigned at Level-3 Covid-19 facilities. It is part of the 600,000 initial doses donated by China to the Philippine government.
Dr. Chris Sorongon, deputy for medical data and analysis of the EOC Task Force, earlier said if all Sinovac vaccines will not be used, the remaining vaccines will be used by medical frontliners from Level 1 and 2 hospitals in Bacolod City.
The 6,300 doses of Sinovac vaccines are good for 3,150 recipients aged 18 to 59 years old in Bacolod City.
Sorongon said the Covid-19 vaccine recipients will be given two doses of vaccine. The second dose will be given after a month.