Medical frontliners of Bacolod City’s Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) and the COVID-19 Vaccination Council (CoVAC) have been inoculating city folks residing in remote villages and puroks since last month.

Concurrent EOC-TF executive director and CoVAC coordinator Em Ang said their vaccination team, led by Iris Kerr, has been administering jabs to people from the grassroots as part of the strategy to protect those living in far-flung areas from COVID-19.

Residents of Hacienda Carmen in Barangay Granada were the latest batch to avail of the vaccines on Sunday, November 7.

Ang said the purpose of the barangay vaccination initiative is to reach out to senior citizens and other eligible adults considering distance and transportation difficulties.

Since the activity’s inception in October, the city’s vaccination team has already served barangays Granada, Alangilan, Estefania, Mansilingan, Handumanan, Vista Alegre, and Mandalagan.

Ang recalled that the barangay-to-barangay campaign came about after she and Dr. Chris Sorongon visited Barangay Estefania last month and realized there were still many residents who remain unvaccinated, thus, the decision to expand and bring the vaccines to remote sites.

The residents, meanwhile, are thankful of the city government’s efforts to bring the vaccines to them.

“It also helped that our team made efforts to educate them of the effects of the vaccine and its benefits,” she explained./WDJ