SOME 198 employees and sub-contractors of STEAG State Power Inc. have been vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).
STEAG IEC specialist Ryan Orteza, said its first batch of the company-procured AstraZeneca vaccines under its COVID-19 Vaccination was administered today, Thursday.
“This is to ensure that employees remain healthy and protected against the dreaded Coronavirus disease (COVID-19),” said Orteza.
He said the program was intended to inoculate not just SPI’s regular employees but also its sub-contractors, dependents, and community stakeholders.
Around 7,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines were purchased through Aboitiz Power and Go Negosyo/BDO Foundation, under the private sector-led ‘A Dose of Hope’ program.
According to Orteza, it is a tripartite initiative among the private sector, the government, and the British drugmaker AstraZeneca in support of the National Immunization Program of the government that seeks to achieve herd immunity by year-end.
Around 198 doses were administered to SPI power plant employees and sub-contractors at the Mindanao Power Plant, said Ortiza which was identified as the off-site vaccination area for the deployment of the vaccines.
Just recently, 44 SPI Head Office employees in Makati together with their dependents completed their first dose of the company-sponsored vaccination.
SPI Power Plant Manager, Dr. Carsten Evers encouraged all its employees to be vaccinated against the dreaded COVID-19 virus.
“Management desires that all members of the team get vaccinated so that employees are not only kept healthy and protected, they can also continue to serve and help SPI keep its commitment of providing power to the island of Mindanao especially in this challenging time,” Evers said.
“The benefit of being vaccinated is not just for you, your family, but for the whole community. So, let us help our government achieve herd immunity and look forward to a return to much better normal for everyone,” Dr. Evers added.
SPI has partnered with Reliance Care Inc., a subsidiary of Unilab for the end-to-end COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Program for SPI. This is also in coordination with the Department of Health-X and the Local Government Unit of Villanueva, through its Municipal Health Office.
The succeeding COVID-19 vaccine administration is still to be coordinated in time with the next vaccine delivery.
SPI’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program supports the government’s efforts to vaccinate qualified adults and help reduce the risks of infection amidst this time of the pandemic. (PR)
