Tagbilaran City starts Bohol's first mobile COVID-19 vaccination program

TAGBILARAN CITY -  Eulalia Cadeliña- Remolador, a resident of Barangay Poblacion 3, was the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine through the mobile vaccination program (MVP) of the city government on Thursday, Aug. 12.

"Thank you," was all 89-year-old Remolador said after she received her first dose of Sinovac vaccine from Dr. Jeia Pondoc, the city health officer.

The city government of Tagbilaran launched on Thursday the province's first MVP as part of the ongoing efforts to protect the residents against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Mayor John Geesnell "Baba" Yap said the city government put together a team that will go to villages to vaccinate residents who are part of the vulnerable sectors.

A mobile bus carrying medical equipment and personnel needed for the safe transport of the vaccines was deployed.

There is also personnel from the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and one mobile utility vehicle from the city government.

Yap said that they are targetting senior citizens and persons with comorbidities.

Yap said the MVP would supplement the city’s five existing vaccination centers especially that many residents now wanted to be inoculated and that they flocked to the city’s five vaccination centers.

"Vaccination is very important so the Tagbilaran City Government is bringing the vaccines at their doorsteps because they need to be protected. There is no reason for residents not to be vaccinated  especially this time of pandemic and the threat of the Delta variant," said Yap.

"This is our goal in the City government to vaccinate as many Tagbilaranons as we can," he added. -- BAP, GMA News