TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Nov. 28 (PIA) -- The Bohol Inter Agency Task Force (BIATF) is urging municipalities to put up more vaccination sites and mobile vaccination teams for the National Vaccination Days.

This as the national government intends to breach the one million vaccines administered in a day and speed up the rollout of doses to 1.5 million a day in the next three days.

The national government through the Department of Health (DOH) has pegged for Bohol a daily vaccination average for Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 some 80,000 doses or 240,000 for the three days.

Since vaccination rollout started in Bohol on March 6, Bohol has been trying to hit the 20,000 doses a day mark. 

Initially, the vaccination logged a low daily average due to the few number of vaccines delivered here, but recent deliveries allowed Bohol over 200,000 vaccines in its cold storage facilities despite daily ongoing vaccinations.

Last week, however, the DOH in Bohol has released data about Bohol vaccination sites showing 20 towns relying on a single fixed vaccination site to serve their constituents.

Nurse Neil John Ochoco said data showed that 15 more towns had the initiative to put up two vaccination sites, improving their vaccination accomplishments.

The same data also showed that six towns have put up three vaccination sites.

The rest of the towns were able to put up over four vaccination sites, giving them better vaccination accomplishments.

Moreover, the research data showed that 21 towns or 38.9% of 47 towns and a city in Bohol have no active mobile vaccination teams.

At least 18 towns in Bohol or 33.3% have put up one active mobile vaccination team, while three towns put up two teams.

Two towns have put up over 12 vaccination teams, according to the DOH report.

In the same report, DOH noted that a town in Bohol has been giving vaccination without a physician supervising the vaccine operations, while 35 towns in Bohol operated with one doctor supervising the vaccine rollout while 11 towns had two doctors on the lookout.

Six towns do their vaccination rollout with the help of three doctors while one town at least in Bohol had five doctors at the vaccination team’s disposition.

BIATF key officials said the only way Bohol could level up its numbers and improve its vaccination accomplishment is to put up more vaccination sites, and strategize on their mobile vaccination teams so that there is a team that can reach the far-flung barangays to personally conduct vaccinations.

On this, Gov. Arthur Yap observed that “if we rely on fixed vaccination sites, we can not get to the target.”

The governor was basing his observation that in Cabilao, a mobile vaccination team was able to vaccinate over 500 people in the inland areas, which could not happen had a mobile team not traveled to the area and deliver the service. (RAHC/PIA7 Bohol)