La Trinidad vaccinates kids during quarantine

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- The Municipal Health Services Office held house-to-house vaccination the past two weeks for children not given regular vaccines during the imposition of the Enhanced Community Quarantine.

 MHSO Officer-in-Charge Dr. Genevieve Degay said children who were not administered with the regular vaccines in the last two weeks of March until April are the target for the house-to-house vaccination dubbed “Catch up Bakuna.”

This is to ensure that   children get their regular vaccines to keep them healthy and protected from any outbreak of   vaccine-preventable diseases that may result   due to non-administration of such.

Since all the MHSO staff have been exposed to suspected or probable COVID-19 contract tracing of cases, Degay said they hired nurses and midwives to go around barangays to implement   the “Catch up Bakuna” for two weeks.  

 Among the vaccines which were skipped during the ECQ were Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV), Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), Pentavalent Vaccine (Penta) and Measles, Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine.

 Parents and guardians of children without any record  and due for vaccination are encouraged to provide child's name, address and contact number for easy location. (JDP/SCA-PIA CAR, Benguet)