MPHHI inoculates nearly 80 percent of work force
METRO Pacific Hospital Holdings inc. (MPHHI) has vaccinated the majority of the frontliners in all of its 18 health-care institutions in the shortest possible time in support of the national vaccination program that aims to inoculate all medical workers by the end of april.
as of the end of march, MPHHI hospitals have administered jabs to 20,492, or nearly 80 percent of their 25,717 workers, with the first of two doses of either Sinovac or astrazeneca.
Some of their bigger member-hospitals in metro manila, namely, makati medical Center, asian Hospital and medical Center, and manila Doctors Hospital, have reached worker vaccination rates of 91 percent, 98 percent, and 89 percent, respectively.
other hospitals in the network have also undertaken equally aggressive vaccination programs as supplies have become available.
“The rollout of safe and efficient vaccines is critical to the welfare of our people, as well as to the revival of our economy,” said manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of MPHHI.
With the arrival of more vaccines in the next few months, he noted that the challenge will shift to getting people injected by as many frontliners as possible.
“our hospitals are perfecting this process as we speak, and i think we’ll be in a position to offer even greater help to the government and to the wider community very soon,” he said.
Protection and relief
MPHHI President and Chief Executive officer augusto Palisoc Jr. underscored the protection and relief this has provided to health-care workers.
“our hospital workers have been bravely caring for our patients for an entire year, amidst the global pandemic We really wanted to make these vaccines available to them as soon as possible, especially now that we are experiencing a much bigger surge in cases,” he noted.
“The vaccines give our people an additional layer of security, and perhaps helps their families rest a little easier. This also makes our hospitals safer for all our patients and their families,” Palisoc added.
Pangilinan is among top business leaders in the country to support the national government in providing frontliners with an additional two million doses of astrazeneca vaccines developed by the oxford university in the united Kingdom.
Through metro Pacific investments Corp. and its logistics arm metropac movers inc., Pangilinan initiated the storage of the initial 487,000 vials of oxford-astrazeneca vaccines and the 600,000 doses of the Coronavac vaccine from the Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac.
“it is our privilege to assist the government in bringing the vaccines to Filipinos, particularly to medical frontliners. as the Philippines continues to move towards economic revival, it is in everybody’s best interest to protect as many Filipinos as possible from the virus. This additional batch of vaccines, this time from oxford-astrazeneca, is a great start,” Pangilinan said.