The national government will stop deploying “very sensitive” vaccines to areas with storage problems, according to Galvez.
On Friday, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said that the national government will stop deploying “very sensitive” vaccines to areas with storage problems.
Galvez said that local government units (LGUs) that failed to properly store “very sensitive” COVID-19 vaccine doses would no longer receive those vaccines in the future.
“Ang nakikita natin na isang sanction doon is one, for example ang nasira ay Pfizer, we will not anymore give them Pfizer. ‘Yung mga tinatawag natin na vaccines na very sensitive na hindi nila kayang i-handle, talagang imi-minimize namin ‘yun sa mga LGU na hindi prepared,” Galvez said in an online press conference.
Officers in charge of the COVID-19 vaccination program in every area, according to Galvez, may also be held liable for lapses that lead to the wastage of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
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Galvez also said that local government units that received those vaccine doses must have to preserve the efficacy and safety of the said vaccine because it will also endanger the health of the public once its safety and storage was compromised.
“Sa ngayon ang bakuna ay ginto so kailangan lahat talaga ng nakakatanggap nito na LGU, they have to preserve the safety and efficacy of the vaccine kasi once na na-compromise ang safety at storage, it will also endanger the health of the public,” he said.
Galvez’s comment came a day after Muntinlupa City said that it discarded several COVID-19 vaccines, fearing that the vaccine doses have been compromised following a temperature change in their storage facility.
Pfizer, one of the country’s preferred COVID-19 vaccine brands, needed to be stored at -80 to -60 degrees Celsius while Moderna and Sputnik V require -20 degrees Celsius.
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