ARC Hospital to help speed up vaccine rollout

CEBU, Philippines — Allegiant Regional Care Hospitals Inc., also known as ARC Hospital is reaching out to companies, starting with locators at the Mactan Export Zone (MEZ), to roll out COVID-19 vaccination.

Following its official kick-off of vaccination campaign held March 10, 2021  with shots administered to total of 265 frontline healthcare workers, ARC Hospitals’ Medical Director, Dr. Alex E. Alegrado, announced the company’s program to help companies accelerate vaccination of their employees.

“There have been some partner MEPZ companies (we call them ARC AFFILIATES) that have touched-base with us in the administration of the vaccines. They have separately facilitated their orders of the vaccines for their own employees,” Alegrado told The Freeman.

ARC Hospitals started with information campaign prior to the arrival of the vaccines, “we simulated and prepared through CDC and DOH.”

According to Alegrado, the company purchased and prepared the freezers and refrigerators way ahead, as well as trained their vaccination team.

ARC Hospitals received a total of 529 doses of CoronaVac vaccines from the Department of Health (DOH). These were among the vaccines that arrived in the country through a donation from China.

Sinovac’s CoronaVac is the third Covid-19 vaccine brand to be approved for emergency use after Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca, respectively.

“The arrival of these vaccines is indeed a sign of hope and healing. This is a huge step towards a COVID- free Lapu-Lapu City.”, added  Alegrado.

ARC Hospitals, a Level 2 hospital with a Level 3 laboratory, is located at Sitio Malinao, Barangay Agus, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu.

The business sector in Cebu is banking on the fast deployment of vaccine for speedy economic recovery.

“The business community cannot afford to experience another lockdown,” said CCCI president Felix Taguiam in an earlier interview.