About 87 percent of Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) personnel have been vaccinated against the Covid-19 and demand generation activities are ongoing to encourage the rest of the employees to volunteer for the vaccination program.
Ashley Melecio of the BGHMC Public Health Unit said out of the 2,699 employees, 2,663 or 98 percent listed for the vaccination program.
As of May 5, there are 2,356 or 87 percent who were already vaccinated with their first dose.
Of the vaccinated employees, 1,556 completed their two doses of Sinovac vaccine while 856 are set to be vaccinated with their second dose, of which 113 will receive Sinovac and 743 will receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
For vaccination deferrals recorded at BGHMC, the reasons were due to a disease or symptoms, just recently received other vaccines, auto-immune disorders, pregnant or planning to get pregnant, and allergies to vaccine.
Melecio said registration to the vaccination master list is still open and demand generation activities continue as BGHMC targets to cover 100 percent of its employees.
Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Bernard Demot, said case management is coping with the continuing surge of cases. He said the hospital is expanding its capacity as needed.
In terms of testing, the BGHMC molecular lab has no backlog. – Carlito C. Dar
