FORTY of the 183 personnel of the Western Mindanao Command’s (Westmincom's) Camp Navarro General Hospital (CNGH) were inoculated, a military official said.
Lieutenant Colonel Maria Victoria Mandin, CNGH chief, led the inoculation that was held on separate occasions at the gymnasium of Camp Basilio Navarro that houses the Westmincom headquarters in Zamboanga City.
“I now feel safer and more protected knowing that I already have the defense in my system that will fight off the virus,” Mandin said after she received her first dose of vaccine.
Colonel Alaric Avelino del Santos, Westmincom information officer, said 10 of the 40 CNGH staff members were inoculated Tuesday afternoon, March 9. The other 30 CNGH staff were vaccinated Wednesday, March 10.
Mandin, without giving specific details, said they received the vaccines Monday, March 8, from the City Health Office.
The vaccines given to CNGH were part of the 2,000 vials the Department of Health-Zamboanga Peninsula distributed to private hospitals through the City Health Office.
The inoculation in private hospitals rolled out Tuesday, March 9.
Meanwhile, Mandin said not all of the 183 CNGH staff members will be inoculated, as five of them are disqualified since they are already senior citizens.
She said the inoculation will continue as soon as they will receive the doses of vaccines allotted to them.
“This signifies the massive inoculation of the Covid-19 vaccine in this unit. Our priority is to administer the vaccine to all health workers of the command,” Lieutenant General Corleto Vinluan Jr., Westmincom chief, said. (SunStar Zamboanga)