Pang-engganyo lang.. COVID vax sites sa paaralan, itatayo — DOH

ni Lolet Abania | July 15, 2022

Maglalagay ang Department of Health (DOH) ng COVID-19 vaccination sites sa mga paaralan para mahikayat ang mga kabataan na magpabakuna laban sa virus, ayon kay DOH officer-in-charge at Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire ngayong Biyernes.

“We are going to set up vaccination sites in schools… to further encourage not just children but also their mothers when they go to school and they bring their children there,” pahayag ni Vergeire sa isang interview sa ANC.

“They are there already and they might be more encouraged because ‘yung access po ay binigay na natin sa kanila. Even teachers and those non-teaching personnel that has not been vaccinated yet baka mas ma-encourage natin,” dagdag niya.

Gayunman, iginiit ni Vergeire na ang pagbabakuna kontra COVID-19 ay hindi dapat na isang prerequisite o kinakailangan para sa paglahok sa face-to-face classes dahil aniya, maaaring magdulot ito ng tinatawag na disenfranchisement.

Ito ang tugon ni Vergeire nang tanungin siya kung magiging bukas siya na imandato sa mga estudyante na magpabakuna laban sa coronavirus.

“Well, definitely, the vaccines or the vaccination should not be a prerequisite to going to school. This would disenfranchise other children whose parents would really not allow their children to have themselves vaccinated,” paliwanag ni Vergeire.

Sinabi rin ng DOH undersecretary, “education is a right.”

“What we need to do is we need to incentivize and also we need to encourage our mothers, our guardians, that their children get vaccinated. And what we need to do as the government would be to ensure that there is this safe environment for our children when they get back to school,” saad pa ni Vergeire.