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#WEGOTYOURVAC Group mounts unprecedented vaccination drive for essential workers
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irst Pacific Group companies in the Philippines led a massive operation in the second half of this year to vaccinate 60,000 essential-worker employees. The #WeGotYourVac Immunization Program followed the wave of vaccinations for the frontliners of MPIC’s hospital group Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings Inc. (“MPHHI”) in the first quarter of the year. Led by the MVP Group Vaccine Task Force, the first tranche of company-procured Moderna doses were administered in the first week of July at Meralco Compound in Pasig, Manila, where the National Capital Region+ (“NCR+”) is considered a high-risk and higher priority area. Other NCR+ sites, manned mainly by frontliners from MPHHI, have a daily vaccination capacity of an average of 700 to 1,350 individuals. For areas outside NCR+, the Vaccine Task Force used a combination of MPHHI’s private healthcare network, other group companies’ facilities, and selected malls. THE KEY SOURCE OF STABILITY “Our vaccinees, through the essential services we offer groupwide - from hospitals, telecommunications and digital services, electricity, water, tollways and road infrastructure, media, and more - have been and will continue to be the key source of stability as the Philippines emerges from this global crisis,” Pangilinan has previously noted. The Group previously announced that they had ordered vaccines from Moderna and Astra Zeneca for more than 300,000 employees, dependents and household members, and the Group’s extended workforce. “Any talk about ending this pandemic Mega vaccination sites such as the Meralco Compound in Pasig can vaccinate an average of 700 and up to 1,350 individuals per day.
Present at the pilot vaccinations at Meralco Compound in Pasig City (L-R) PLDT and Smart Chief Procurement Officer and Vaccine Task Force Procurement Lead Mary Rose Dela Paz, Meralco President and CEO Atty. Ray Espinosa, Pasig City Administrator Atty. Jeron Manzanero, MPIC Chairman Manuel V Panglinan, MPHHI Chief Operating Officer and Vaccine Task Force co-chair Dr. Jeff Staples and PLDT and Smart Chief People Officer and Vaccine Task Force co-chair Gina Ordoñez.
begins with a fundamental imperative: the successful rollout of ethically-procured, safe, and effective vaccines to a significant majority of our people,” Pangilinan said in a group-wide Chairman’s Message. “Inoculating the population from the virus does not just reduce the number of infections and deaths - but minimizes the possibility of new mutations and variants, taking us a step closer towards the paramount goal of herd immunity,” he explained. To this end, the Group has been actively donating vaccines to augment the initiatives of several NCR and provincial local government units. Earlier this year, the Group also helped ramp up local government unit vaccinations by offering the expertise and available capacity of its largest NCR hospitals, where up to 98% of frontliners were vaccinated as early as March 2021. The Group also showed solidarity with the national government and other members of the private sector with the ceremonial start of the vaccination rollout in June 2021. This was in partnership with the National Task Force Against COVID-19, Taskforce T3 (Test, Trace and Treat) and the Department of Health. <<
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