MANILA, Philippines — Government-owned hospitals and five big private hospitals in Metro Manila will receive the initial vaccines coming from Pfizer once it arrives in the country, the Department of Health (DOH) said Tuesday.
“We have the three designated hospitals, we have DOH-referral hospitals. We have other DOH hospitals here in Metro Manila,” Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire told CNN Philippines when asked about the number of hospitals that would receive the 117,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first batch of 900,000 doses of the American drugmaker’s vaccine.
“We have LGU [local government units] hospitals and we have five big private hospitals,” she added.
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