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BACOLOD CITY, March 8 (PIA) A strong manifestation on the safety of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines was displayed when five medical doctors and a nurse had themselves inoculated with Sinovac vaccines that arrived in Bacolod City, March 5.
Dr. Miguel Sarabia, ophthalmologist and President of Negros Occidental Medical Society (NOMS), made history as the first Bacolodnon based in Bacolod City to get the Sinovac vaccine as City Health Office-OIC Dr. Edwin Miraflor Jr administered the vaccination during a ceremonial rite held at the lobby of the Bacolod City Government Center shortly after the vaccines landed at the Bacolod-Silay Airport via a Philippine Airlines flight.
Chief Executive Officer of Adventist International Healthcare System Philippines Dr. Hector Gayares indulged with reporters in a quick Question and Answer banter before the ceremonial vaccination of Sinovac vaccines that arrived March 5 in Bacolod City.
As Doc Hector makes the queue in the first step of the vaccination process, reporters chanced upon him being the third in line, following husband and wife Dr. Miguel Sarabia and wife, nurse Valerie Villarosa-Sarabia at the landing of the staircase of the Bacolod City Government Center waiting to register while nurses fill in their vaccination forms.
Here’s how the Q&A develops from before vaccination to after vaccination:
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Medical frontliners, according to city officials, will be given main priority.
The 6,300 doses was part of the 600,000 initial doses donated by China to the government.
“This is historic,” Mayor Evelio Leonardia said, adding that the first vaccination in Western Visayas happened here and the first COVID-19 case in the region was also recorded in this city.
Leonardia said that like the others who were also clobbered by COVID-19, during those rough times, the city was also one of the first to recover. “This makes today’s event more significant and meaningful,” the Bacolod mayor said.
Leonardia considers the vaccines as a light at the end of the tunnel. “We are still inside the tunnel but what is important is that we’re slowly moving towards the end of the tunnel through the vaccines as our light,” he added.